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m its fulness 


OR 



HERE AND HOW 


BY 

CHARLES THOMAS PARNELL 

AUTHOR OF 


India , Its Peoples and Customs, 
Healing for the Nations, 

Where is the Lord God of Elijah?”, etc . 


Publiihed by 

THE EUREKA BOOK CO. 
Los Angeles, California 





Copyright, 1922 
All foreign rights reserved 


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Bo all seekers of Brutl), 

Bo aspirants of spiritual attainment, 
Bo tl)e need? ever?wl>ere, 

Bl)ls book is affectionate!? dedicated. 


“Ignorance of Truth is the cause 

of all misery ”— The Buddha. 


“Ye shall know the Truth , and the Truth 

shall make you free ”— The Master. 



CONTENTS 


Page 

Foreword . 7 

I. Wealth. 12 

II. Vibration. 16 

III. The Ether. 22 

IV. The Aura. 27 

V. Cells. 31 

VI. Thoughts. 33 

VII. Imagination. 36 

VIII. The Subconscious Mind. 40 

IX. Law . 48 

X. Desire . 52 

XI. Will . 55 

XII. Concentration. 59 

XIII. Decision. 63 

XIV. Acceleration . 66 

XV. Suggestion . 70 

XVI. Positivity. 74 

XVII. Inherent Energy. 83 

XVIII. Mastery. 87 

XIX. Juvenescence. 90 

XX. Service. 93 

XXI. Spiritual Consciousness. 97 

XXII. Life .102 

XXIII. God . 106 

XXIV. Prayer .113 

XXV. Affirmation .124 

XXVI. The Supreme'Secret.127 

































FOREWORD 


G OD “in the beginning,” and for all time, lovingly- 
provided for all His creatures, without exception, 
everything conducive to their highest good, fullest de¬ 
velopment, and utmost utilization. To serve man and 
to perfectly supply his need is the chief function of 
nature. 

The very hunger for nourishment implanted in man’s 
breast is prima-facie evidence that there is inherent in 
him the power to translate his natural, legitimate desires 
into fullest fruition; it is the assurance to him that there 
exists already that which is intended to satisfy the need; 
and he has also the immutable promise of his Creator to 
withhold from him no good thing, here or hereafter. 

The average man is a creature of impulse, swayed by 
every passing thought, torn by divers conflicting emotions, 
a victim of bodily ailments, inharmony, and disquietude, 
subject to circumstances over which he has no control, 
suffering limitations of every sort, and in dire need, 
physically, mentally, financially, spiritually. 

It is amazing to find how few really understand the 
rudiments of life, the care of their bodies, the cultivation 
of their faculties, the control of the forces that dominate 
their whole existence, and their intimate relation to 
Universal Abundance. “Of what earthly use are our 
mammoth libraries, our wealthy colleges, our intricate 
laboratories, our ostentatious displays of learning, if, 
after all, we remain in total ignorance of life?” 

The wisest thought of the seven wise men of Greece 
was expressed in the two words carved over the entrance 
of the great Delphic temple ,—Know thyself. All people 
may be divided into two classes,—those who know and 
those who know not. 


8 


Life in its Fulness 


There is universally a great awakening along the 
lines of Applied Psychology. Scientists of distinction are 
investigating, weighing, and tabulating data, and are 
giving it out to the world broadcast. Lecturers and 
teachers are swamped with engagements in all of our 
cities; and people everywhere, professional and other¬ 
wise, are gladly paying enormous fees for private courses 
and class instructions which have been the basis of the 
making over of tens of thousands of business men and 
women, preachers and school teachers, salesmen and 
saleswomen, the grocery clerk and the laundress, the mes¬ 
senger boy and the shop girl, the old and the young, and 
which also have been of inestimable value to the 
prospective mother. 

It is hoped that this book, fundamental, concise, and 
explicit, will fill a great need and will reach those who 
cannot attend lectures and classes. It contains the 
wisdom-secrets, ideas, and helps, the Truths, Laws, and 
Principles of Psychology, Metaphysics, and the higher 
Spiritual Life. It teaches the art and practice of con¬ 
scious, subconscious, and superconscious coordination. 
It shows how to get into rapport with the cause of condi¬ 
tions and things, how to harness the ideal to the real and 
practical, and how to solve the problems of your life. It 
points out how to awaken dormant energies; how to 
vitalize the entire being; how to become a magnetic per¬ 
sonality; and how to convert a stagnating, wandering 
mentality into concentrated, dynamic force, and negative, 
destructive thought into constructive, creative activity. 
It instructs how to operate and utilize the law of vibration, 
the law of attraction, and the law of opulence, and how to 
organize and attain the Success Consciousness and 
superinduce Enduring Prosperity. 

The new, progressive, constructive, creative, applied 


Foreword 


9 


psychology is a science—that of the mind—and concerns 
itself only with demonstrable fact and repeatable 
phenomena. Like the sunshine, it is applicable to all 
human beings of every religious persuasion and to those 
who profess no “religion” at all, regardless of color, race, 
age, education or the lack of it, irrespective of people, 
things, conditions, or economic insecurities. 

If you carefully read with unbiased mind the 
following chapters and faithfully practice the principles 
presented in them, the time you invest and the energy you 
expend will pay you dividends all your life. 

Knowledge is power; so also is air,—but both are 
economically worthless without their application. Un¬ 
applied facts and principles are as useless in one’s brain 
as are books on the shelves of a library. The value of 
an idea is determined by its employment. Truth makes 
a man free and causes him to triumph only as it is realized 
and utilized. Let, therefore, instruction prove in you 
the preliminary step to construction. For you to study 
and appreciate and then lay aside the teachings given 
herein, would be to act like a man who, having carefully 
read the bill of fare, straightway leaves a restaurant 
declaring himself well fed. To receive the benefits of 
these lessons, you must read them over and over a number 
of times at intervals, giving serious thought to the facts 
stated. Take them to heart, meditate on them, and put 
them into practice, obtaining a consciousness of their 
reality through the acid test of repeated personal 
demonstration. 

This little work has been constructed with extreme 
simplicity and is sent forth stripped of all non-essentials 
and of the mystical maze of metaphysical and occult 
theories. You will discover some fundamental law or 
valuable suggestion or most important Truth condensed 


10 


Life in its Fulness 


into a terse, concentrated statement. However, it will 
not give information about striking oil on your land, nor 
will it tell if your aunt is soon to die and leave her 
fortune to you, nor will it disclose any royal scheme for 
supremacy in competition with your fellowman; but it 
does furnish the key to Personal Power and Financial 
Independence. 

Rid your mind completely of the idea of competition. 
You are to create, and not to exploit another for what 
is already created. The visible supply is practically in¬ 
exhaustible, and the store in realms unseen and eternal 
is sideless, topless, and bottomless. Original, formless, 
infinite substance is alive and bursting with creative 
energy and responds to the need and desire and will 
of man. 

Live by the principle that blesses everybody and 
deprives no one of anything. Whatever you desire for 
yourself, wish also for others. Practice the law that 
benefits your neighbor,—the universal law of love. Give 
every man more in use value than you take from him in 
cash consideration if you would truly and permanently 
profit in all business transactions. 

It is as flagrantly wrong to influence people mentally 
as to coerce them by physical force. The penalty of 
self-destruction and ignominious failure automatically 
results from utilizing such principles as are given in the 
following pages for any unworthy purpose or for the 
working of any other law than that of good will. 

Wherein reference is made to the occult, I do not 
mean magic, hypnotism, fortune-telling, sorcery, or 
necromancy, nor any of the shams, imitations, or counter¬ 
feit features of true faculties, forces, and processes 
inherently a part of each soul’s equipment and experience. 
Occultism bespeaks the search for God, the great Cause 


Foreword 


11 


back of all nature. It embraces a knowledge of the finer 
natural forces not generally perceptible to the outer five 
senses of man. 

This book has not to do particularly with moral values 
nor with questions of theology; it is primarily and essen¬ 
tially issued as a guide to the attainment and enjoyment 
of success and prosperity. 

If you sincerely and earnestly will to know the Truth, 
the Spirit of Almighty God will direct you in the quest ; 
and He that “lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world” will reveal to you the Father of Love—omnipres¬ 
ent, omnipotent, omniscient, omniactive—a conscious 
knowledge of whom is Life, eternal and abundant, Life 
in its fulness, here and now. 

Charles T. Parnell. 

Los Angeles, California, 

June, 1921. 


CHAPTER I 

WEALTH 


44 npHOU shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is 

* He that giveth thee power to get wealth.”— 
Deut. 8:18. 

The idea of money is misunderstood by many people. 
Money means independence, and it gives the opportunity 
to carry out great ideals. It opens many doors; without 
it man can accomplish practically nothing. 

Man needs good food, comfortable clothing, warm and 
dry shelter, rest from his toil, recreation, books and the 
time to read and study them, opportunity to travel and 
observe God’s wonderful world, surroundings of beauty 
and harmony,—all that he is capable of appreciating and 
using; and these things are obtained with money. 

“Unless a man acquires money he will not have any¬ 
thing that makes life worth living for one who thinks and 
feels.” Money is a symbol of almost everything that 
man can obtain from the outside world that is necessary 
for his well-being. 

“The possession of money gives confidence, the lack 
of it self-consciousness.” It is neither a devil to shun 
nor a god to worship. He who says, “Poverty is my 
bride,” has a false idea of monetary values; his attitude 
toward material things does not accord with the highest 
conception of All Good. 

How many people are there, who, for want of money, 
are unhappy, in the bondage of debt, in fear, and in ill- 
health ! There is nothing too good for the man and the 
woman who assert their right to live and to partake of 
and enjoy the best things of earth. 


Wealth 


13 


Worldly riches have been despised and condemned 
by spiritual aspirants because of ignorance of how to 
possess them and not to be possessed by them. Not 
money, but “the love of money is the root of all evil,” 
and is that which enslaves and degrades. However, 
riches are not merely an accumulation of dollars or things. 
The miser is not rich despite his hoard. World-wealth 
is but the reflection of the real, the inexhaustible riches of 
eternal verities. “Riches without spirituality are Dead 
Sea fruit.” 

In the Bible, prosperity is identified with God. He is 
the true Source of riches never-failing; and, as His off¬ 
spring, heirs of all things, we are to express that richness 
through this body, here and now. God is the Author of 
plenty, of superabundance. Poverty is failure; yea, 
poverty is a disease,—a mental disease, parent to the ma¬ 
terially destitute condition. As one has said, “The out¬ 
ward conditions of a man’s life are a reflex of his thought 
world.” 

No matter how honest, generous, or noble a person is, 
if he want for any of the necessities of life, he is not a 
success. “The consciousness of ability to meet every oc¬ 
casion in life and convert it into health, happiness, and 
supply,” has been defined as success. There can be 
neither health nor happiness till wants are supplied. 

Christianity and poverty are illogical associates. 
Temporarily, for our sakes, Christ “became poor” for a 
wonderful purpose. His was the chosen path of abstrac¬ 
tion from the world. He treasured not a place to lay His 
head, but He was truly rich, rich in all knowledge. In 
His conscious grasp He held the powers, the elements of 
all nature and of the spiritual world; He could produce 
at will any desired condition of supply, from actual cash 
to angel support. Christ commanded forces that could 


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Life in its Fulness 


have made Him a Croesus in a moment; by using occult 
laws with which to procure the money, He paid tribute to 
Caesar. 

Riches and poverty are of the spirit. Many men and 
women, laden with this world’s goods, utter strangers to 
the interior wealth, are like the mule that bears rich 
ore on its back out of the mine, knowing only the burden 
and none of the good of it. Paupers in mind, they 
mistake the shadow for the substance. 

This is the universal and unchanging law: “Seek ye 
first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all 
these things shall be added unto you.” Being rich toward 
God, noble of character, filled with the love of service to 
humanity, you cannot escape the blessings of earth—unless 
you purposely repudiate them. 

The richness that comes to you through Truth and 
righteousness is permanent and is accompanied by all the 
joys of heaven. A little money with understanding goes 
further than much money with no spiritual consciousness. 
We know that with divine guidance one can often pur¬ 
chase better articles for less, goods that are more suit¬ 
able, fit nicer, last longer, and give better service. It is 
written of the Israelites that their garments and shoes 
waxed not old while they journeyed in the wilderness. 

The first step in prosperous attainment is to have the 
proper mental attitude toward world-wealth. Decide this 
at once, for your future success largely depends upon it. 
It is the divine will that you shall be a self-reliant, self- 
supporting being, that you shall have what you need and 
all you can use. It is your rightful heritage. Remember 
that Abundance is a natural law of the universe; you are 
in a world of untold wealth. Get in touch with God’s 
law, and money will flow to you; you will draw it into 
manifestation. 


Wealth 


15 


“Acquaint now thyself with God . . . receive the 

law from His mouth, and lay up His words in thine heart. 
. . . Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold 

of Ophir as the stones of the brooks . . . and thou 

shalt have plenty of silver/’—Job 22:21-25. 


CHAPTER II 

VIBRATION 



LL is vibration. Vibration is the key to the universe, 


^ the explanation of all things. “Vibration is life, 
motion, action, creation, and realization. Everything 
that is now, ever has been, or ever will be, depends upon 
vibration and its manifold rates of activity. It makes and 
directs all conscious life. ,, —Dr. J. Seton. 

Every cell in the body beats or vibrates just as the 
heart of man “breathes in rhythmic measure.” There is 
a purpose in everything, from the vibrations of an electron 
to the eruption of a volcano. 

From the atom up, through all the material 
combinations and groupings there is flux and influx, ebb 
and flow,—incessant motion. This is true of the tides 
of the sea and of the planets also as they swing in regular 
orbits around the sun, and again of the suns as they whirl 
around still greater suns,—all manifest rhythm. 

“Matter is a mode of motion.” The form a thing 
takes depends upon its rate of vibration. Wood is vibra¬ 
tion at one rate, light at another. The only way anything 
can be changed is by decreasing or increasing its speed. 
The words dead, solid, are misnomers. If you could 
examine an oak table sufficiently magnified, you would see 
each separate atom madly dancing at the rate of 
30,000,000,000 vibrations per second. The velocity of an 
electron, the smallest particle of matter, is, according to 
Sir Joseph Thomson, from 2,000 to 6,000 miles per second. 
X-rays move at a speed as high as 40,000 miles per second. 

A bar of iron placed in a fire soon becomes hot to the 
touch because its rate of vibration is increased. If left 


Vibration 


17 


in the fire longer, it will soon glow with a dull light; and, 
if the fire is hot enough, the iron will become brighter and 
brighter, finally reaching a state of incandescence in which 
it radiates light. 

Then again, the color of light varies. The first color 
produced is red; and then, by a constantly augmented 
vibratile energy, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and 
violet appear in turn, each spectrum-band being due to an 
exact and definite increase in the number of the vibrations. 
Above the purple range light ceases ordinarily to be 
visible; higher still are planes where the vastly increased 
vibrations manifest as magnetism and electricity. Then 
on and up through the psychic and astral realms, a point 
is reached where rapidity of motion transcends time and 
space; and we become cognizant of other agencies and 
energies, superior and more intense of pulsation, forces 
operating by and through Spirit, the most powerful 
vibratory substance in the universe. 

Between the highest note we can hear and the lowest 
degree of heat to which we are sensible, or from the fif¬ 
teenth to the forty-fifth octave, there is a great gap as yet 
uncomprehended by man. Also, above light, in the realm 
of the “unknown radiations” discovered by Professor 
Roentgen, and higher, there are regions wholly unex¬ 
plored. Somewhere in these vast, unfathomed areas un¬ 
bridged by human ken, far beyond the sixty-second octave 
or 4,611,686,618,427,389,904 vibrations per second, lie 
the forces, manifestations of infinite power and glory and 
wisdom spoken of in the Bible, associated with the Mount 
of God and with the Ark of the Covenant, precipitated 
upon Carmel by Elijah in the form of consuming fire, and 
experimented with in all ages and by all peoples. Utilized 
by Christ, demonstrated by the Apostles, these same forces 
and powers, of which we shall have more to say later, 


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were often employed by the early Christian Church and 
by believers from time to time on down through the 
centuries. 

In this all-embracing gamut of vibrations, the group¬ 
ings of the planets and the stars, the earth and its details, 
human beings and their component parts, atoms and the 
planetary action of the electrons within them,—all have 
their numerical value and intimate relationship to each 
other and to the whole. 

Everything in the universe, from a gigantic, whirling, 
fiery globe in the heavens to a blade of grass, has its own 
peculiar keynote. “God telleth the number of the stars,” 
—their numerical value, their definite keynote. And the 
statement in the Bible that the morning stars sang to¬ 
gether is not mere poetic fancy. Stars differ in glory and 
power, and also in the pitch and volume of their song. 
If only our ears were more finely attuned we would catch 
the wondrous symphony of all nature, the harmonies of 
the universe. As Shakespeare wrote: 

“There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. 

Such harmony is in immortal souls; 

But whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.” 

Pythagorus was the first to discover that the arrange¬ 
ment of the heavenly bodies depends upon intervals 
synchronous with musical rhythm. It is said that he 
heard “the ordered music of the marching orbs,” the har¬ 
monies produced by the motions of the planets. His 
knowledge of music was such that “he could use it for the 
controlling of men’s wildest passions and the illumination 
of their minds.” 

It has been said of music that the greatest masterpiece 


Vibration 


19 


is but a sign-post to that infinite realm of harmony in 
which music is forever included. Think of the range of 
tones between our sun and Betelgeuse, forty million times 
larger, the latter so far away in distant space that a beam 
of light traveling 5,865,696,000,000 miles in a year would 
take 200,000 years to reach it. And there is no reason to 
doubt that beyond Betelgeuse there are other suns com¬ 
pared to which that giant is but a grain of sand. The 
twelve octaves of matter are analogous to the twelve 
octaves of sound and the seven notes of the musical scale 
synchronize with the seven colors of the rainbow. An 
octave of sound corresponds to pure white of dazzling 
brightness. 

To the student of occultism it has long been known 
that every sound instantly creates an image, and this fact 
has been recently demonstrated in the production of sound 
pictures by means of the eidophone. When sung into, 
this instrument causes the vibrations to act upon paste 
spread uniformly over tightly stretched parchment so that 
they form figures of the paste which vary according to 
the notes of the song. In this manner, trees, flowers, 
ferns, etc., can be produced identical with those found in 
nature. Both sound and form being vibrations, the abso¬ 
lute relationship that exists between them is thus shown. 
When the sounds are forming flowers, the singer can at 
pleasure increase the number of petals by gradually rais¬ 
ing the tones of his voice. He can thus change a pigmy 
daisy to a gigantic sunflower. 

Lately a scientific musician resorted to the following 
method of making musical tones record the lines of their 
sound waves so that the eye could have a picture of the 
forms they produced. Suspending five pens from the 
wires of a piano so that they would move delicately over 
sheets of paper, he succeeded, by striking the keys care- 


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fully and allowing the sounds to die out naturally, in 
making the vibrations of the sound waves of each chord 
trace the lines of their movements, with the result that 
typical flower designs of mathematical exactness and of 
exquisite beauty were formed. 

You have heard of the latent power in the rhythm of 
music. Various instances are on record of massive 
bridges having been shattered by a continuous note of the 
violin. A marching army is invariably ordered to break 
step while passing over a bridge. Science teaches us that 
the vibrations of a musical instrument could cause one of 
our modern skyscrapers to tremble, then sway to and fro, 
and finally collapse, if one were but to ascertain the in¬ 
dividual keynote of the entire structure. This explains 
the “divinely natural” falling of the wall of the city of 
Jericho when it was encompassed by the Israelites and 
when the priests blew long blasts in unison on chosen 
horns. 

Now, just as everything in the universe is in vibration, 
so also is Thought. It is a high-tension current right 
above the Marconi wave. Thought is mind in motion. 
All thought, on any plane, is vibratory. As there are 
shades and degrees of vibration in music, expressed in 
harmony and in discord, so also there are varying rates 
of motion in the mental realm. Each kind of thought has 
its own rate, degree, and character of vibration. Its 
nature and intensity determine the speed of a good or a 
bad thought. 

We shall see as we proceed that thought is a force, 
subtle, vital, irresistible, that radiates from us as light 
does from the stars; that if one can mobilize his thoughts, 
he can command his life; that every mental impression 
will set in motion a corresponding action or vibration that 
will produce after its kind; and that vibration is intensi- 


Vibration 


21 


fied and accelerated by thought. Hence, if you are 
interested in physical culture, character building, self- 
mastery, prosperity, attainment, it is of paramount im¬ 
portance that you understand formative and creative 
thought and its action and reaction. 

To apply this principle, to emphasize its larger 
significance and very practical range, your attention is 
called to the fact that not only have health and disease 
their specific rates of vibration and that by the associated 
motions excited in the mind do they affect the body, but 
also that by the same law do we induce and precipitate 
any other condition in our entire lives, social, commercial, 
or financial. 

One of the most important things is to train the mind 
to set in motion only such activities as are harmonious and 
constructive. We have the right and the power to 
establish our own rhythm. We can all attune our 
thoughts and expressions with the highest and most pow¬ 
erful waves and currents universal and, vibrating with 
the great rhythmic harmony of nature inherent in the 
mind of each of us, achieve success imperishable. 


CHAPTER III 

THE ETHER 


E VERYTHING we see and touch has an ethereal 
basis. Ether is the physical source of all light, heat, 
electricity, and magnetism; it is the one fundamental and 
primordial basis of all things, the substance which God 
formed in the beginning. 

Interstellar space is filled with this ever-present, per¬ 
petually-vibrating ether, and every particle of matter in 
the universe is enfolded and interpenetrated by it. “This 
ethereal ocean is to the material and physical universe the 
exciting and stimulating medium of all its activities, ener¬ 
gies, motions, and powers.” Hertzian waves, ultra¬ 
violet rays, mental pictures, thoughts, and words are but 
vibrations of the ether. 

Science affirms that the ether is elastic to a high degree 
and extremely sensitive to impressions of every descrip¬ 
tion; that all things are recorded upon it, not only mo¬ 
tions of matter, but also word and thought vibrations; 
that all knowledge, all that has ever transpired or ever 
will transpire in the universe, is faithfully registered, 
retained, and perpetuated in the ether for thousands of 
years, and that, too, with a fidelity that cannot be marred 
even to the most infinitesimal detail. 

It is from this source that the mystic—artist, writer, 
or musician—draws his inspiration; and the psychic, 
vibrating with this ether, obtains his information of the 
past, present, and future. This explains, too, the phe¬ 
nomenon of mental telepathy. Herein do we understand 
also how it is that not even a sparrow falls to the ground 
unnoticed and unrecorded, and likewise is made clear the 


The: Ether 


23 


Bible statement that, the judgment-books being open, we 
are to render an account for every idle word. In the ages 
to come all is to be revealed, and we shall read the records 
of the world, and of all worlds, as plainly as though writ¬ 
ten by Gabriel in letters of fire on the arches of the skies. 

It was from this all-knowing ether that I predicted, 
months beforehand, a detailed war narrative that has 
since become historical. The week I left New York City 
for France in 1917 with the American Red Cross, I had 
an experience of prescience and told a friend of it, warn¬ 
ing him three different times not to be anxious for my 
safety if, when the time came, I were unable to send him 
a message. The place where I was to be stationed in 
France was unknown to even the director of our unit, but 
I recorded that the town would be captured by the enemy 
and that they would literally take everything in sight in 
all that part of the country. This occurred in the Somme 
in that renowned spring drive of 1918, six months and 
three weeks later. So keen was this perception, so vivid 
this knowledge, that I lamented daily the work of the 
restoration of sugar refineries and canal locks and the 
general reconstruction, and often spoke to one of my as¬ 
sociates of my consciousness of the utter ruin and the 
capture of that entire territory to follow shortly. 

The cinematograph and phonograph give us constant 
evidence of the impressibility of the ether and of its 
ability to register and preserve the actions and words 
of things and people. It will be seen that the ether is not 
only impressed by and impregnated with, but that it also 
vibrates thought forces—good, bad, and indifferent—• 
billows of ideas, feelings, emotions, and all mental action. 
These currents pass over and influence us, and we in¬ 
fluence them. According to the quality and speed of our 
thoughts we vibrate with them; or, by raising our pitch, 


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by intensified, concentrated mental or spiritual effort, we 
harmonize with the nobler, the higher, the more powerful, 
the particular condition we desire to induce. 

Just as the universal ether is affected and in turn af¬ 
fects, and as individuals are influenced and do influence, 
so also do all things absorb and radiate mental vibrations, 
even articles of apparel and the very furniture in our 
homes. It is to these etheric impressions and emanations 
that the psychic is sensitive. The psychology of “reading 
between the lines” of a letter and translating the impell¬ 
ing vibrations of its very essence is known to many; in¬ 
deed, a letter while being written may be so saturated with 
loving thought force as to shout its message through the 
envelope and impart to the recipient a thrill of joy. It is 
not uncommon for certain believers to bless handkerchiefs 
with such conscious power and intelligently directed bless¬ 
ing—as did Saint Paul—that they carry instant physical 
healing wherever and to whomsoever sent. 

Viewed from a natural science standpoint, the ether 
consists of lines of force at right angles to each other, 
each of these lines of force being a thought and each 
thought a high-tension electrical current vibrating at a 
different rate. 

Professor Dolbear says, “Grant that mental action is 
accompanied by molecular motion of any sort, and it 
follows that there must be corresponding ether waves.” 

In the authoritative quotations that follow, the 
substantiality and the tremendous energy of the mind are 
indicated, associated as it is with the universal ether, 
which, as Sir Oliver Lodge says, is “uniformly present 
and all-pervading, massive and substantial beyond con¬ 
ception—the most substantial thing, perhaps, in the 
material universe.” 


The Ether 


25 


“Those who have been naively identifying substance 
with hardness or solidity are reminded here that these 
qualities of matter are purely relative, and depend solely 
upon the rate of vibration of the particles and their degree 
of cohesion. Raise the vibration and the molecules fly 
farther apart from each other and the solidity departs. 
The most solid steel is no more substantial than the same 
steel when it is dissolved into gas. The invisible steam is 
quite as substantial as the same thing when it is frozen 
into a block of hard ice. In fact, the higher the vibrations 
of matter, the more energy is displayed by it and the more 
real do its activities become. The universe in its former 
nebulous state was just as real as it is in a condition of 
solidity. Solidity is merely a comparative quality of 
matter, and has no connection whatever with substantial¬ 
ity. Electricity, magnetism, light, and heat are just as 
substantial as steel, granite, or diamond. And mind is 
more substantial than either of these, at the last.”'— 
William Walker Atkinson: The Mastery of Being. 

According to Dr. Le Bon, the world’s greatest 
physicist, “matter is composed of infinitely small particles 
gravitating round one another as the planets round the 
sun, and probably formed by whirls in the ether. It is 
probable that matter owes its rigidity only to the rapidity 
of the rotary motion of its elements, and that if this mo¬ 
tion stopped, it would instantly vanish into ether, without 
leaving a trace behind. Gaseous vortices, animated by a 
rapidity or rotation of the order of that of the cathode 
rays, would in all probability become as hard as steel.” 

Sir William Crookes estimates that “a cubic foot of 
ether has locked up within it 10,000 cubic foot-tons of 
energy.” 

Sir John Herschel states that a cubic inch of ether, if 


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confined and relieved from outside pressure, would have 
a bursting pressure of more than seventeen billions of 
pounds to the square inch. 

Thomas A. Edison voices the belief that a new force 
in nature, of some sort or other, will be discovered, while 
Nikola Tesla foresees that the power of the ether will in 
some manner soon be utilized as a source of ordinary 
motive power. 

“The ether is coming to be apprehended as immaterial, 
superphysical substance, filling all space, carrying in its 
infinite throbbing bosom the specks of aggregated dynamic 
force called worlds. It embodies the ultimate spiritual 
principle, and represents the unity of these forces and 
energies from which spring, as their source, all 
phenomena, physical, mental, and spiritual.”—Stockwell. 


CHAPTER IV 

THE AURA 


\\ T'E have seen that there is a universal ether, all- 
* X enveloping and interpenetrating; so likewise there 
is a corresponding individual ethereal environment called 
the Aura. 

Every thing has an aura of its own, even so called 
inanimate objects. This auric emanation is made up of 
the very essence of the thing itself and is an incessant 
radiation of matter in a refined and volatile state. The 
aura of the earth, for instance, contains every element of 
the earth. Hospitals have a most pronounced aura. The 
“atmospheres” of cities differ greatly. The individual 
aura of the atom accounts for the psychometrist’s being 
able to answer the questions you may choose to ask about 
the history of a jewel, a lock of hair, an heirloom, etc. 

The human aura is a three-fold envelope of physical, 
mental, and spiritual layers, inseparably connected with 
the body and extending beyond it a foot or more. The 
want of sensitiveness alone, prevents our discerning it 
normally. This aura was usually represented as a halo 
painted around the heads of saints by the artists of the 
Renaissance. 

G. P. Lewis, referring to emanations of luminous rays 
that can be seen around the body, calls it a “golden glow, 
a substance not measured by any unit known to 
scientists.” 

This human atmosphere is created by one’s constant 
thought or mental attitude towards life. The sum of these 
thoughts represents one’s character. These collected im¬ 
pressions accumulate a tremendous force, according to 


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the intensity of the thought expression; and this aggrega¬ 
tion is very magnetic, drawing to itself thoughts and ideas 
like unto its own nature. It is negative or positive, re¬ 
pellent or attractive. This explains why you like some 
people and dislike others. Babies and animals are very 
sensitive to a person’s aura. Some auras are warm, love- 
inspiring, and friendship-making, while others are cold, 
calculating, and less magnetic. This excrescence is what 
you respond to in another, and is that which incites con¬ 
fidence and enthusiasm or hate and fear. It is what you 
“feel” when you enter a supposedly empty room in the 
dark and immediately sense a presence. 

This fascinating subject is now brought into the realm 
of physical research, for the human aura can be plainly 
seen through a dicyanin screen, a special glass invented by 
Dr. Walter J. Kilner. Dr. Paul Joire is the inventor of 
an instrument that demonstrates the operative force of 
these auric radiations, which are called N-rays by Pro¬ 
fessor Blondlot, and which have been photographed by 
various scientists, including Doctors Baraduc and 
O’Donnell. 

To the clairvoyant this ether body is visible. He sees 
the aura of everyone just as we see the physical form. 
To him even the “thin veil” is non-existent, for it is only 
by an exercise of the will that he shuts out the distracting 
confusion of the interpenetrating, multicolored, powerful 
auras of the entities all about him, in both the seen and 
the “unseen” worlds. Persons naturally clairvoyant ex¬ 
perience a great deal of annoyance until they learn to shut 
off from themselves the thought currents of others. The 
development of psychic gifts is a curse or a blessing in 
proportion to one’s knowledge of how to destroy evil 
thoughts or control portending disaster for the good of 
all concerned. 


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Everything we think is expressed in color in the aura. 
We are clothed with color. Every aura is different, 
changing color with our thought, temper, and mood. 
Some are very wonderful and charming. These color vi¬ 
brations indicate the physical, mental, and moral charac¬ 
teristics of an individual. Upon the quality of the colors 
predominating in one’s aura is dependent success or 
failure on all planes, since the aura of man attracts to him 
happiness or misery, friendship or enmity, good or ill. 

Those possessing the vision of the seer can delineate 
from the colors in the aura a person’s character and 
development and his likelihood of success in the various 
walks of life. There are those also who, by the aura, can 
diagnose diseases perfectly and prescribe those herbs that 
will produce the necessary chemical changes in the body 
and thereby correct the inharmony. 

The aura reflects the emotional life of man and 
vibrates with every expression of his thoughts and feel¬ 
ings. When this psychic body is dominated by a particu¬ 
lar emotion, it is suffused by the color of that vibration— 
the lurid red of anger, the slimy green of jealousy, etc.— 
and by reason of the closeness of the bond between the 
two planes, the effect upon the physical organism is 
marked. 

As all that has transpired in the world is indelibly 
engraved upon the universal ether, so are our individual 
thoughts, ideas, desires, and every expression of our 
whole existence registered and retained in our auras. It 
is from this record that the true “fortune-teller” gets his 
knowledge of us. Nor can he tell more than one would 
vision if he were drowning and going down for the third 
time. Dr. Sigmund Freud, the great psychoanalyst and 
nerve specialist, says that mortals can hide no secret, and 


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that whoever is silent with the lips tattles with the finger 
tips, betrayal oozing out of every pore. 

This radiation is largely responsible for “love at first 
sight”; and disillusionment so often follows because the 
couple is “catching love” from without instead of from 
within. “Catching cold” is likewise more psychical than 
physical. If you could see all the vibrations in a street 
scene of a modern city as colors, you would readily under¬ 
stand why a sensitive person is exhausted by an hour’s 
shopping! 

Envelope and protect yourself with a strong, bright 
aura vibrating high-frequency waves of dominant op¬ 
timism, masterful assurance, and a steady consciousness 
of success and prosperity. 


CHAPTER V 


CELLS 

A CELL is a living organism containing a central 
^ , spot or nucleus within which is a nucleolus. A 
multicellular organism is a colony of such cells of as 
many different kinds as there are kinds of tissue in the 
organism. Each cell clusters around a certain center, 
and these centers coordinate with the great center, the 
brain. There are cerebral and nerve cells, muscle and 
bone cells, liver and kidney cells, etc., of which the organs, 
glands, tissues, and blood are composed. The human 
body is a vast nation of these living cells. 

The brain is composed of an enormous number of 
cells, estimated by some authorities to be from 500,000,000 
to 2,000,000,000. Ordinarily, in our thinking exercises, 
we use just a little portion of the brain, and the unused 
cells form a great reserve force. The brain will even 
grow additional cells in cases of need, when stimulated 
into action by new interests, so that the mind capacity of 
the individual is almost limitless. 

Intelligence, however, is not confined to the brain 
alone, which is but one instrument of many for the 
expression of mind. Science proves that we think as a 
whole; all the cell life takes part in the thinking process. 
Each cell is a distinct living entity and does, in its own 
particular way, its own special work. Cells are potentially 
each a perfect human being. Ambition which appears 
in man is really an aggregate of the ambition in separate 
cells. What we call our emotions are the collective 
agitations of a tremendous army of individual cells. 

Professor Nels Quevli says, “Each cell in the body is 


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a conscious, intelligent being.” According to Edison, 
“Each cell in us thinks.” Scientific experiments show 
that the individual cells in a piece of flesh taken from any 
part of the body and placed near a drug injurious to cell 
life will draw away as far as they can from it, and that 
when a substance friendly to cell life is placed near them, 
the cells will draw as closely as possible to this friendly 
substance and try to absorb it. 

Each one of these microscopic cells, invisible to the 
naked eye, has the power to repair, organize, develop, 
and evolutionize itself, as well as to reproduce and replace 
the protoplasmic molecules of which it is composed. 

By utilizing the laws and principles given herein and 
by deliberately applying them, one can control and stim¬ 
ulate these willing cells for their higher organization and 
functioning, thereby energizing and intensifying all one’s 
bodily and mental powers, characteristics, and faculties. 
These myriads of cells are as sensitive to every mental 
impression as though it were photographed upon them. 
Like storage batteries, they hold the thought; and, when 
properly organized, disciplined, and directed, they spon¬ 
taneously and automatically perform one’s bidding. They 
may be likened unto a crowd of skilled workers, intelli¬ 
gent builders, which fashion and mold, change and modify, 
create and plan; and these are directed, controlled, and 
influenced by thought. One’s prevailing mental attitude 
is the pattern after which the brain cells build. 


CHAPTER VI 

THOUGHTS 


T HOUGHTS are things, definite, tangible, concrete. 

Thoughts can be felt, analyzed, and described; they 
can be photographed, weighed, and measured. By some, 
thoughts are heard just as we hear another’s speech. 

Camille Flammarion, the famous French philosopher, 
said, “Thought is the greatest force in the universe.” The 
more concentrated the thought, the greater is its in¬ 
fluence; the more intense, the farther distant its effect. 
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon 
the world! All things are at a risk.” One of the most 
powerful things in the world is a vibrant idea incarnate. 

“Thought takes form in action and being”; and the 
following recognized statements will show something of 
the operation of thought as expressed in our lives, and 
the importance of a right understanding and of a proper 
mental attitude toward this subject. 

“Every true thought and every right action sets the 
seal of its beauty on person and face, and every foul 
thought and wrong action its seal of distortion.”—Ruskin. 

“It is the thought of man, the true thaumaturgic vir¬ 
tue, by which man works all things whatsoever. All 
that he does, and brings to pass, is the vesture of a 
thought.”—Carlyle. 

“Think well! Do well will follow thought.”—Tenny¬ 
son. 

“All our worth exists in thought; endeavor, therefore, 
to think well.”—Pascal. 

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality 


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of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.”—Marcus 
Aurelius. 

“What a man thinks, that he is; this is the old secret.” 
—The Upanishads. 

“As he thinketh in his heart, so is lie.”—The Bible. 

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; 
it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our 
thoughts.”—Buddha. 

“As one state of mind is capable of producing a dis¬ 
ease, another state of mind may effect a cure.”—John 
Hunter, the celebrated anatomist. 

“Diabetes from sudden mental shock (ethereal intensi¬ 
fication) is a true, pure type of a physical malady of 
mental origin.”—Sir B. W. Richardson. 

“The mental cortex has to be reckoned with, more 
or less, as a factor for good or evil in all diseases of 
every organ, in all operations, and in all injuries. . . . 

I could have related remarkable cases to you from my 
own experience, and out of books, of functional disease 
being brought on and being cured by mental impressions 
only, of functions being suspended and altered by the 
same cause,—nay, of actual organic lesions being directly 
caused and cured by mental impressions.”—Dr. Clouston, 
in his address to The Royal Medical Society. 

Dr. A. T. Schofield, who says that the powers of the 
conscious mind over the body are well-nigh immeasur¬ 
able, on page 96 of The Force of Mind, narrates the 
following: “Two medical men were walking together, 
and one was saying that he could make a man ill by 
merely talking to him. The other doubted this; so, see¬ 
ing a laborer in a field, the first speaker went up to him 
and, telling him he did not like his appearance, proceeded 
to diagnose some grave disease. The man was pro- 


Thoughts 


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foundly struck, left off work soon after, and, feeling 
very ill, took to his bed and in a week died.” 

“The mind of the human organism can, by an effort 
of the will properly directed, produce measurable changes 
of the chemistry of the secretions and excretions. . . 

If mind activities create chemical and anatomical changes 
in the cells and tissues of the animal body, it follows 
that all physiological processes of health or disease are 
psychological processes, and that the only way to inhibit, 
accelerate, or change these processes is to resort to 
methods properly altering the psychologic or mental 
processes.”—Professor Elmer Gates. 

“When the great universe was wrought 
To might and majesty from naught, 

The all-creative force was—Thought. 

“That force is thine. Though desolate 
The way may seem, command thy fate. 

Send forth thy thought—Create! Create !” 


CHAFT£R VII 

IMAGINATION 


OW, deeper study of the action of the mind will 



-L ^ disclose the fact that thought is not only the mighty 
formative agent that builds our bodies or contrariwise 
produces a state of disease, but also that Imagination is 
one of the highest and most potent factors in our lives. 
It is the TNT energy. The faculty of thought to create 
a mental picture is one of our greatest, most vital assets, 
and is the secret underlying much of the phenomena 
called occult. 

There exist in the Universal Mind the ideas and 
ideals of everything that ever has been or ever will be 
imagined by man, every invention, facility, and improve¬ 
ment for the use and benefit of the race; and he, receiv¬ 
ing them from the Source of all things, from the vast 
cosmic ocean of intelligence, fashions them by the power 
of thought and gives them visibility and form. As 
Lamartine says, “Human thought, like God, makes the 
world in its image.” 

“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are 
made and which, in its original state, permeates, pene¬ 
trates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought 
in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by 
the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, 
by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”—W. D. 
Wattles: The Science of Getting Rich. 

John Fiske, the well-known historian and professor 
of philosophy, writes, “It was long ago shown that all 
the qualities of matter are what the mind makes them.” 


Imagination 


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‘‘Imagination is a real thing; it is a faculty of the 
mind by which it creates a matrix, mould, or pattern of 
things which the trained will and desire afterward 
materialize into objective reality. There has been noth¬ 
ing created by the hands and mind of man which did 
not have its origin in the imagination of some one.”— 
Atkinson. 

It is a truism that thought precedes the act. Before 
he constructs an edifice, the architect must first have a 
mental conception of its entire form. When you look 
upon a beautiful cathedral or at any exquisite work of art, 
you know that it was first conceived and executed in the 
mind of some master builder and is the offspring of 
some one’s imagination. 

T. S. Baldwin informs us that every difficult gym¬ 
nastic feat requires mental deliberation in advance, for 
the mind cannot suddenly and radically divert its course 
of action on a plane where it has not learned, because 
of the force of gravity, to feel at home. He says that 
after years of practice as a gymnast, he was never able 
to turn a double somersault without definitely willing 
the act and drawing in his mind a clear picture of the 
revolutions of his body in the air before rising from the 
leaping-board. Thus, also, the golf player mentally 
plays the shot before striking the ball. In like manner, 
Randegger, in his primer on singing, directs the pupil to 
mentally aim at the pitch of the note before singing it. 

In the Bible story of Jacob’s famous rods, we have 
an illustration of this principle, a concrete evidence of a 
law of nature, that the image of a thought, presenting 
itself to and impressing the mind, finds material expres¬ 
sion. Behold! the flocks ‘‘brought forth cattle ring- 
straked, speckled, and spotted.” There are on record 
over ninety well-authenticated cases of stigmata, exact 


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reproductions of the wounds in the crucified body of 
Jesus, caused by intense contemplation. Thought forms 
can be actually photographed on a sensitive plate held 
between the hands, just as truly as vocalized thoughts 
impress the wax of a gramaphone record. 

Charles Godfrey Leland says that all mental or cere¬ 
bral faculties can by direct scientific treatment be in¬ 
fluenced to what would have once been regarded as 
miraculous action, and which is even yet little known or 
considered. 

It is told of Thomas Lawson of “Frenzied Finance” 
fame that, as a youth, he painted a mental picture of a 
large estate on which there were the finest horses and 
the choicest cattle, a beautiful house furnished with 
objects of artistic value, and everything else necessary 
for an ideal home. He has said that his successive steps 
toward the acquirement of that home and the gaining of 
the money necessary for its purchase, were like the filling 
in of the details of the picture, the image of which never 
faded from his mind. 

During the late war there were many instances illus¬ 
trative of the power of creative thought, when men’s 
minds were keyed to the highest pitch, when a common 
purpose, concentrated and dynamic, stimulated the emo¬ 
tions and imagination to superhuman efifort. 

If you read Hilaire Belloc’s Elements of the Great 
War , you will find it explained that the battle of the 
Marne was lost by von Kluck through his blunder in 
drawing too many troops from the center to reinforce 
his army on the right in order to overcome what he 
believed to be a tremendous concentration of the opposing 
forces, and that it was through the weakened center that 
boch drove. Officers of the various armies had many 
and varying explanations. Knowing that the French 
had no such concentration as von Kluck imagined, a well- 



Imagination 


39 


known reporter interrogated a certain French officer, a 
cool, deliberate, practical fighting man who held a high 
rank. Said he, “We of France have an explanation for 
it. There are some who profess to believe that von 
Kluck really did see an immense army there before him 
or that others saw this concentration and reported it to 
him. These folks say that when the life and soul of 
France hung in the balance and when there seemed to 
be no way that human endurance could stay the German 
flood, Jeanne d’Arc gathered a celestial host, and that it 
was this which the Germans were permitted to see for 
a little while that the heart of France might go on beat- 
ing.” And in response to the question, “Is this a general 
belief, and do you believe it?” this officer gravely said, 
“Yes.” All the world will remember, wherever the news 
of cable, newspaper, and letter poured in, that this was 
the occasion when it seemed that the enemy would indeed 
fulfil his threat to march triumphantly and unhindered 
through the gates of Paris and occupy the city; when 
from out that great metropolis swarmed citizens of every 
order, armed with every imaginable sort of weapon, 
joined all along the line by farmers and peasants bran¬ 
dishing scythes and pitch-forks, bows and arrows, and 
even slings, riding in vehicles of every conceivable kind, 
in taxicabs, omnibuses, wagons, and on bicycles, forging 
ahead with all speed straight toward the fast approach¬ 
ing column of the German fighting machine,—a spectacle 
for men and angels; when France, carnate and discarnate, 
poured out her life in one tremendous accumulation of 
spiritual, mental, and physical energy. And who shall 
say that the illusory effect that won the day, that 
turned the tide of battle and answered the prayers of 
nations in that world crisis, was not literally created by 
the amassed and mighty thought forces of the millions of 
individuals centering their vital interest on that front? 


CHAPTER VIII 

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 


H AVING learned something of the working of the 
mind in general and of the effect of thought, we 
come now to a particular phase of this interesting sub¬ 
ject,—the inner consciousness. We are to differentiate 
between the conscious, objective mind and the subjective 
or subconscious mind. In the mind of every person 
there are areas or planes of mental activity above and 
below the field or plane that we know as the outer con¬ 
sciousness. There are, as it were, basements, cellars, 
and vaults below, and other floors and stories towering 
above the level of our mental first floor consciousness. 

W. G. Hooper, in his excellent book, The Universe of 
Ether and Spirit, says, “In order to explain all the 
phenomena with which the investigator is confronted as 
soon as he begins to tabulate some of his results—-as 
telepathy, the power of the will in hypnotic suggestion, 
etc.—he has to postulate a deeper self than that which 
lies on the outer surface, so to speak, of the personality 
of man. This he calls the subliminal self or the sub¬ 
conscious self, that inner mysterious something which 
lies deep down in the innermost recesses of our human 
nature and which is indissolubly connected with the more 
objective self of one’s being.” 

All psychologists recognize what is called the Sub¬ 
conscious Mind, termed by some the “communal soul,” 
the “better consciousness.” There is found a common 
ground of agreement between all authorities respecting 
the fundamental facts of the existence and phenomena 
of these areas of ultra-marginal consciousness lying out¬ 
side of the field of primary consciousness. 


The; Subconscious Mind 


41 


The late F. W. H. Myers, after years of careful 
study and research along the lines of the “out-of-con¬ 
sciousness” states, formulated a hypothesis of a “second¬ 
ary self,” possessing certain powers and exercising them 
in a measure independent of the ordinary conscious self. 
He wrote, “The words supraliminal and subliminal may 
be used to express the mental life which goes on above 
and below the ordinary threshold of consciousness.” 

Another writer says that ourself is greater than we 
know; it has peaks above and lowlands below the plateau 
of our conscious experience. 

The subconscious mind is the region, the seat, of all 
emotions, impulses, instincts, and habits. At least ninety 
per cent of our mental life is subconscious. “It is very 
evident from recorded facts that people can actually 
reason and act without waking consciousness, in a state 
of mind which resembles instinct, which is a kind of 
cerebration or acting under habits and impressions sup¬ 
plied by memory and formed by practice, but not accord¬ 
ing to what we understand by reason or judgment.” 

It is Emerson who said, “Trust the instinct to the 
end, though you can render no reason.” 

The subconscious mind has no volition of its own 
and acts only on impressions made or orders given by the 
conscious mind. It is extremely susceptible to the con¬ 
stant force of suggestion by the things we see, hear, and 
sense, and by the process of the ordinary thinking of the 
normal waking consciousness. 

The subconscious mind is continually active and 
misses nothing; it works automatically, reasons deduc¬ 
tively, presides over all the vital functions, and rules us 
in sleep. We are all familiar with the fact that the 
subconscious mind, being entrusted with the duty, will 
spontaneously awaken us at exactly the predetermined 


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hour; also, that intricate mathematical problems are 
solved in the same manner during our slumber. It is 
then that our minds communicate at a distance, annihilat¬ 
ing time and space. Thought transference has to do with 
the conscious mind; telepathy, with the subconscious. 

Firmly resolve or present to your mind a clear-cut 
idea of the thing you wish, and let your subconscious 
mind, which never sleeps, work it out for you. Sleep is 
the subconscious period; hence we have the proverb, 
“Unto many fortune comes while sleeping.” The sub¬ 
conscious is most suggestible just prior to natural sleep, 
when the conscious mind is quiescent; it is then you 
should construct your air-castles. At that time, in making 
affirmations and autosuggestions and in giving oneself 
mental treatments, one derives, in a normal condition, all 
the benefits obtainable from hypnosis without any of its 
disadvantages. The psychoanalyst proves there is no 
significance to most dreams except that which one gives 
them. 

Diseases can be produced at any time by suggestion; 
likewise diseases are ever amenable to suggestion. It is 
obvious, therefore, that it is criminal for a doctor to 
diagnose an ailment in the presence of a patient. Audible 
corrective suggestions and affirmations of health, given 
to the subconscious mind of a sleeping child suffering 
from a physical defect or disease, by a fond parent, have 
proven most efficacious and have resulted in a perfect 
cure. Johnny is instantly restored by a kiss when he 
falls and bumps his head if he is taught that mother’s 
kiss heals his hurt. A harmless potion substituted for 
a narcotic mixture without the subject’s knowledge is 
equally effective in putting him to sleep. Talismans and 
amulets have little more than the power you give to them 
through credence. Dr. Quackenbos of Columbia Uni- 


The: Subconscious Mind 


43 


versity has accomplished seemingly miraculous results 
in boys and girls in music and in art by suggestion. 

It is from the subconscious mind we get our warnings. 
We have such a feeling that we ought not to go to a 
certain place or to some contemplated party, and this 
burden increases with the preparations; we suddenly 
decide to change our plans, becoming immediately re¬ 
lieved in mind, and discover some hours later that by so 
doing we escaped a disastrous street car accident or a 
train wreck. A noted globe-trotter testifies: “I was a 
passenger on the steamship City of Washington. I had 
purchased my ticket, gone to my stateroom, stored my 
effects, lain down in my bunk perfectly awake, and then 
for some unknown reason made my way quickly to the 
deck and jumped to the dock as the gangplank was 
remo\ed, and watched the steamer slowly pass into the 
stream. She was never heard from again; she sank with 
all on board.” 

Harry Gaze tells of an amusing but “real” demonstra¬ 
tion. In a dream he imagined he was about to be 
attacked by a lion in a jungle when, remembering his 
own teaching that the subconscious mind is an unfailing 
guide and would show exactly what to do in such an 
emergency, he appealed to it,—with the result that at 
the very moment he would have been devoured, he woke 
up! 

This same “something within,” always alert and 
awake to our interests, comes to our aid in seasons of 
doubt and difficulty. It also helps us in the little affairs 
of every-day life, such as locating “lost” articles, furnish¬ 
ing desired information from a book which we pick up 
“at random” from a library shelf, and leading us to 
persons advantageous to us. 

We have all had experiences in trying to recall a 


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name or word or date without success, and later, while 
thinking of something altogether foreign to the subject, 
have suddenly had the matter brought to consciousness 
“out of a clear sky.” This is called “automatic thinking” 
or “unconscious rumination.” 

Whatever is pleasant, nature makes conscious; but 
all monotonous actions are relegated to the subconscious. 
If you have never noticed which arm you put first into 
your coat sleeve or which foot first steps up or down from 
a sidewalk, do so now and then try reversing the regular 
order! 

While this habitual, “second nature,” automatic action 
is associated with the subconscious mind, intuitive action 
is identified with the Superconscious Mind. There are 
many planes of mentation in both the subconscious and 
the superconscious, the activities of which finely shade 
into one another. 

Upon these upper planes of the mind are found those 
faculties known as genius, inspiration, intuition; in this 
ultra-conscious region of the mind all its highest 
operations are carried on. “The advanced occultist 
knows that in the higher regions of the mind are locked 
up intuitive perceptions of all Truth and of anything in 
the material world, and that he who can gain access to 
these regions will know everything intuitively and as a 
matter of clear sight, without reasoning or explanation.” 

Sir William Crookes states that knowledge may enter 
the human mind without being communicated in any 
hitherto known or recognized way. 

It was asked concerning Jesus Christ, “How knoweth 
this man letters, having never learned?” 

“The soul contains within itself the events which 
shall befall it.”—Goethe. 

There is no potency or merit in the cards or the tea 


The Subconscious Mind 


45 


leaves or the crystal with which to tell fortunes, except 
as mediums to the inner consciousness. As soon as you 
think of a thing, past, present, or future, you are in touch 
with the lines of force constituting that thing; and if 
you get the conscious and unconscious phases of your 
mind to vibrate in consonance, you know it consciously, 
whatever it may happen to be. This is a scientific fact 
and is demonstrated by a great many people everywhere, 
by some consciously and intelligently, by others uncon¬ 
sciously and in an uncertain manner. 

The action of the superconscious mind explains how 
it is that a flood of knowledge suddenly deluges the mind 
of a speaker during a forceful, eloquent outburst and 
causes him to utter things unknown to him consciously; 
and also why it is that one often obtains his most 
inspirational thoughts, rich, clear, and powerful, during 
the address of a speaker who is not particularly interest¬ 
ing or clever. As Oliver Wendell Holmes says, “The 
induced current of thought is often rapid and brilliant 
in inverse ratio to the force of the inducing current^ 

I have personally at sundry times given utterances in 
public addresses to expressions of which I had no 
conscious knowledge, and have often experienced it in 
my writings; and instantly have I, by the same law, on 
various occasions known the time of day or night to the 
minute, and been cognizant of numbers and distances 
without extraneous guidance. And to the fact that this 
higher consciousness is perfectly able to diagnose an 
indisposition and to dictate a remedy, many can testify. 

Mozart at the age of four understood the theory of 
music, and at five composed harmonies, the laws of 
which take an ordinary person years of patient study 
to master. 

Samuel Rzeszewski, an eight year old Polish peasant 


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boy, has recently played all the world’s greatest chess 
experts and beaten them. Playing as many as twenty 
games at a time, Samuel outmatched the gray-bearded 
experts who have spent a lifetime studying and perfect¬ 
ing themselves in what is not a game of chance but an 
intellectual contest. 

There have been a number of calculating boys, such 
as George Bidder. When he was twelve years old, 
George could at once give an answer to practically any 
question in mathematics. He seemed to see in the air 
the figures in front of him and simply read them out. 
Zerah Colburn at seven years of age, who on paper 
could not do simple multiplication or division, could 
give instantly the square or cube or square root or cube 
root of practically any number. 

It was the “something” in his inner consciousness 
that enabled Blind Tom, a poor, ignorant black man, to 
play on the piano any piece that he had ever heard, even 
years before, with perfect reproduction of detail. 

It is interesting to note, as an illustration of the 
memory phase of the subconscious mind, which is one 
hundred per cent perfect, that, when less than four 
years of age, Christian Meinecken could repeat the entire 
Bible, two hundred hymns, five thousand Latin words, 
much ecclesiastical history, and an encyclopaedic quan¬ 
tity of theological literature. 

Occultists have long known that a person can see 
without eyes and hear without ears, but it is of com¬ 
paratively recent date that these matters have been 
scientifically demonstrated through an understanding 
of the laws of vibration. Under hypnosis, a man’s con¬ 
scious mind made to coordinate perfectly with his inner 
consciousness, can smell without a nose, as from the elbow 
or finger. In this condition he becomes clairvoyant 


The Subconscious Mind 


47 


also, being able to describe in detail what is happening 
elsewhere. The same thing may be experienced in the 
non-comatose state when one learns to correlate the two 
phases of mind. 

“Our conscious mind, as compared with the uncon¬ 
scious mind, has been likened to the visible spectrum 
of the sun’s rays as compared to the invisible part 
which stretches indefinitely on either side. We know 
now that the chief part of heat comes from the ultra- 
red rays that show no light; and the main part of the 
chemical changes in the vegetable world is the result of 
the ultra-violet rays at the other end of the spectrum, 
which are equally invisible to the eye and are recognized 
only by their potent effects. Indeed, as these invisible 
rays extend indefinitely on both sides of the visible 
spectrum, so we may say that the mind includes not only 
the visible or conscious part, and what we have termed 
the subconscious, that which lies below the red line, but 
also the supraconscious mind that lies at the other end— 
all those regions of higher soul and spirit life, of which 
we are only at times vaguely conscious, but which always 
exist and which link us on to eternal verities on the one 
side, as surely as the subconscious mind links us to the 
body on the other.”—Schofield. 


CHAPTER IX 

LAW 


LL is governed by law. Everything in the universe 



is under law and nothing can escape it, great or 
small. There are lav/s of compensation and adjustment, 
of light and heat, of music and mathematics, of health 
and happiness, all and each an integral part of the One 
Great Eternal Law underlying, inherent in, and mani¬ 
festing in all life. “The laws below are sisters of the 
laws above.” 

And, just as real, discoverable, operative, and prac¬ 
tical as the laws of magnetism and electricity, there 
exists also a law of Prosperity and Financial Success, 
as well defined as any other natural law. Success comes 
from well-established, fundamental, universal, unfailing 
law,—a law to be understood and applied to the individ¬ 
ual situation of every man and woman, everywhere, 
for subjugation, mastery, and utilization. 

This law has been used, consciously or unconsciously, 
by all successful persons in the world from time imme¬ 
morial. They have come to know and harness this law 
either through their own mentality, by the teachings of 
others, or by inspiration. Everyone succeeds with it; 
nobody succeeds without it. 

The law of opulence and bounty is as much the law 
of God and for your good as is the law of love, life, 
power, wisdom, or any other law, natural, physical, 
mental, or spiritual. 

“Everything in nature operates in accordance with 
law. Law underlies everything. You may doubt this, 
but stop a moment and try to think of anything in our 


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finite world that is not the effect of some cause. A 
great stone is dislodged and rolls down the mountainside, 
striking a tree which it uproots and sends rolling down 
into a stream which is dammed up, causing a flood that 
sweeps away a fertile field, and so on and on, effect 
succeeding effect. Was all this mere blind chance ? Not 
at all. The stone was dislodged in response to the oper¬ 
ation of causes that had been at work for centuries 
disintegrating the stone, and which caused the boulder 
to become dislodged exactly at the moment when the 
inherent power of the cause reached that particular 
stage. There was no more chance in the dislodgment 
of the stone than there was in the striking of a clock 
that had been wound up a day or a week or a year before. 
It was all the result of invariable and consistent law. 
And so was the direction of the stone’s fall, and all the 
succeeding incidents. But mark you this: had some 
man been able to discover and understand the law in 
operation in that latent power inherent in the stone, he 
would have been able to prevent the stone’s striking the 
tree and causing all the resulting damage; and he might, 
and would, have been able to divert the stone from its 
path of damage and turn it into some place in which it 
would have done no harm, and in which he could have 
broken it into bits at his leisure and thus secured build¬ 
ing stone for the foundation for his cottage or the 
material from which a hard roadbed could have been 
made. The law behind the stone was always there 
and was consistent in its operation; and yet man, by the 
power of his mind, could have turned the law into his 
own channels and converted it to his use. He could 
have made a servant and a slave of this universal law 
instead of allowing it to master him and become his 
tyrant; for in this way has man mastered the forces of 


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gravitation, steam, hydraulics, and electricity, which once 
mastered him.”—Edward E. Beals: The Lazv of 
Financial Success. 

It is the same law by and through which nature 
operates when it causes the atom of oxygen to attract to 
itself the two atoms of hydrogen in order to form the 
molecule of water. The world over water is composed 
of just these two substances, combined in just this pro¬ 
portion. The atom of oxygen has the power to operate 
the great law of attraction upon the two atoms of hydro¬ 
gen, and when it draws them to itself the tiny globule of 
water results. 

The power resident in a grain of corn, pressed down 
by 25,000 times its own weight, causes the little shoot 
to force its way up through the earth to the sunlight by 
the same wonderful law of attraction, and to raise a stalk 
eight feet high with two or three ears of corn on it. 
“Consider the lilies how they grow,” said the Great 
Teacher. Why? Because they have a law within by 
which they draw to themselves their own sustenance. 
Seed has the power to vibrate with the universal ele¬ 
ments, water, air, and sunlight, and to draw to itself 
all that is needed for self-expression. 

It has been demonstrated that if you take a few 
flesh cells from the bodies of two lovers and bring the 
cells together under a powerful microscope, the flesh cells 
can be seen to actually embrace each other. Professor 
Haeckel says that the idea of chemical affinity consists 
in the fact that the various chemical elements perceive 
the qualitative differences in other elements, experience 
pleasure or revulsion at contact with them, and execute 
specific movements on this ground. 

This same law operates also on the higher planes. 
The law of atomic affinity is paralleled by the law of 


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Mental Attraction. Just as a piece of magnetized steel 
will attract only the products of iron ore, so the mind, 
like a lodestone, will draw to itself only those elements 
that vibrate synchronously with it. A man will always 
gravitate toward that which he most loves. 

“Like attracts like.” “Birds of a feather flock 
together.” “The soul attracts that which it secretly 
harbors.” 

As ideals have an attractive force, so also has a man’s 
mental attitude an attraction for all objects, conditions, 
environments, and associates that harmonize with it. 
“If you hold the ideal of financial success—in short, 
money—your mental attitude will gradually form and 
crystallize the money ideal. And the things pertaining 
to money, people calculated to help you win money, 
circumstances tending to bring you money, opportunities 
for making money—in fact, all sorts of money-things— 
will be attracted to you.” 

Opulence follows a law as strict and exact as the 
laws of chemistry and mathematics, and works just as 
unerringly. There is nothing mystical or supernatural 
about it at all; it is just the simple operation of a great 
natural law. It always has worked and it always will 
work, everywhere and for everybody. Nothing but the 
action of your own mind can deprive you of its bene¬ 
fits. The law of demand and supply is scientific. 

How to utilize, apply, and follow this law to its 
logical conclusion is what you, dear student, are now 
interested in. The three things, broadly speaking, that 
lead to accomplishment, attainment, success, are Deci¬ 
sion, Desire, and Will. Without first deciding defi¬ 
nitely what it is you want, you cannot intelligently 
desire it. Without desire, the will is not aroused and 
does not spring into action. 


CHAPTER X 

DESIRE 


D ESIRE underlies all human activity; it is the causal 
power back of and underneath will itself. Desire- 
force, conscious, purposeful, and intense, at the center 
of the law of attraction, plays a prominent part in the 
secret of success. 

“Not only does desire give to man that inward motive 
which leads to the unfoldment of the power within him¬ 
self, but it does more than this; it causes to radiate from 
him the finer and more subtle mental and vital forces 
of his nature, which, flowing forth in all directions like 
the magnetic waves from the magnet or the electric 
waves from the dynamo, influence all who come within 
the field of force. Desire-force is a real, active, effec¬ 
tive force of nature, and serves to attract, draw, and 
bring to a center that which is in line with the nature 
of the desire.” 

Desire sets in motion the attractive forces. The 
more intense the desire, the greater is the amount of 
energy generated, and the more speedy the reaction. 
There is no limit to one’s possibilities through an ardent, 
fiery desire, which, as a fierce, consuming hunger, an 
unquenchable, insatiate craving, demands satisfaction. 

“To wish is of slight moment; thou oughtest to desire 
with earnestness to be successful.” A strong, surging, 
all-impelling desire, activated and applied consciously 
and intelligently, sets in operation one of nature’s most 
potent, irresistible forces, which acts as a veritable 
cyclone, a deluge that literally tears loose everything 


Desire 


53 


that comes within the radius of its influence and sweeps 
it into the swirling vortex. 

“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute: 

What you can do, or dream you can,—begin it; 

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. 

Only engage and then the mind grows heated; 

Begin, and then the work will be completed.” 

A young man who went to a sage day after day and 
asked, “Sire, what must I do to become wise?” was 
finally taken by him to a near-by river and held under the 
water, struggling desperately. Releasing him at length, 
the sage enquired, “Son, when you were under the water, 
what did you most desire?” Regaining his breath, the 
youth unhesitatingly replied, “Air! Air! I wanted air, 
and thought only of air!” Said the sage, “Then, to 
become wise you must desire wisdom with as great 
intensity as you just now desired air. You must strug¬ 
gle for it to the exclusion of every other aim in life. It 
must be your one and only aspiration by day and by 
night. If you seek wisdom with that fervor, my son, 
you will surely become wise.” 

And so it is with whatever you need and desire 
today; the strength of the effort is the measure of the 
result. The animating force of the great incentive, 
desire, will find expression. “To desire is to obtain; to 
aspire is to achieve.” “Desire for anything is the thing 
itself in incipiency.” You will be as great as your con¬ 
trolling, dominating desire. 

“As the desire of the plant is a natural indication of 
the existence of the nourishment-need, so is this desire 
[the desire for financial success] in the breast of man a 
certain indication of the possibility of its satisfaction and 
attainment, if natural laws are but followed. Nature is 


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no mocker; it causes no desire to spring up in a living 
thing unless it also endows that living thing with the 
faculties and powers to attain that which it craves. 
Desire creates mental attitude, develops faith, nourishes 
ambition, unfolds latent powers, and tends directly and 
surely toward success.”—Beals. 


CHAPTER XI 

WILL 


T?IRST desire and then the will to perform govern by 
invariable law all natural forms and degrees of 
things, animate and inanimate. 

The human will is a very real thing. It is an actual, 
living force, an energy as tangible as electricity. The 
will is the immediate expression of the inmost self of 
each of us, the strongest expression of the great life 
force within. The awakened will of man stirs into activ¬ 
ity the dormant energies and the reserve forces of his 
mind. 

“Will is a subtle, tenuous power, resting latent 
beneath the surface and out of evidence; but, when 
needed, it flashes forth like the dynamic spark, driving 
all before it. It is an elemental force of irresistible 
power.” 

“When a man formulates any great plan in harmony 
with nature's ordination, the will of man thus becomes 
one with the Universal Will, which is a channel of the 
divine forces of the universe. There seems to be no 
limit to human achievement in harmony with nature’s 
laws if pursued unfalteringly by a strong and uncon¬ 
querable will.” 

When a man says, “I will,” intelligently and con¬ 
sciously, and with all the forces of his being poured 
into it, he sets up great whirlpools and whirlwinds of 
invincible energy; his will becomes a tremendously vital 
and dynamic force which, in its mighty onrush, com¬ 
pels attention, demands recognition, surmounts all 
obstacles, dissolves every barrier, annihilates opposition, 
and effects his purpose. 

In the case of Bede the Venerable, even the grim 




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reaper was forced to stay his hand. “There are but a 
few more verses, dear master,” he was told in response 
to anxious questioning. “Then hurry, write faster,” 
urged Bede of his faithful student and scribe. But not 
until the last word of the last verse of the New Testa¬ 
ment was translated and dictated did the tireless spirit 
of the old schoolmaster cease from its labors. Some¬ 
times the concentrated thought-energy being insuffi¬ 
ciently determinate, one passes out of the body, the mind 
still occupied with and attached to earth affections. 
These earth-bound thought-forms, the “ghosts” seen by 
those possessing “second-sight,” are impressions on the 
ether, having no objective reality whatsoever. 

One might as well stand on the seashore in a hurri¬ 
cane and with a broom try to sweep back the proud 
waves as to resist “the will of a man who knows what 
is true and who wills what is good.” 

Persistence and determination are closely associated 
with will, but are not to be confounded with stubbornness. 
The latter is identified with ignorance and prejudice. 
However, no matter how strong a will one may have, 
one can only obtain the best results by acquiring the art 
of constant, unvarying, unrelenting application to the 
desired object. 

“Where there’s a will there’s a way” is proverbial. 
“O well for him whose will is strong!” “Great souls 
have wills; feeble souls have only wishes.” 

“A passionate desire and an unwearied will can per¬ 
form impossibilities, or what would seem to be such, 
to the cold and feeble.”—Sir John Simpson. 

Roosevelt, at the age of nine given up by the doctors, 
“hit the line hard” by his indomitable will, saying, “I 
will live and be strong and well as others.” 

“I have brought myself by long meditation to the 


Will 


57 


conviction that a human being with a settled purpose 
must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will 
which will stake even existence upon its fulfilment.”— 
Disraeli. 

“Resolve is what makes a man manifest, not puny 
resolve, not crude determination, not errant purpose, but 
that strong and indefatigable will which treads down 
difficulties and danger, . . . which kindles his eye 

and brain with a proud pulse-beat toward the unattain¬ 
able. Will makes men giants.”—Mitchell. 

“I will find a way or make one,” said Hannibal. 

George W. Childs, who owned the Philadelphia 
Ledger, once blacked boots and sold newspapers in front 
of the Ledger building. He used to look at that build¬ 
ing and declare over and over to himself that some day 
he would own the great newspaper establishment that 
it housed. 

In her inspiring autobiography, Helen Wilmans, a 
farmer’s wife who was tortured day and night by the 
pangs of actual want, tells of her practice of the law of 
opulence. She recounts how she made her way to San 
Francisco after the farm was sold for the mortgage; 
and, having determined to do only that upon which she 
had set her heart, after three days of hunger and trial 
she obtained a position in a newspaper office at six 
dollars a week. Soon thereafter, standing in snow and 
sleet, a stranger and alone, with but twenty-five cents in 
her pocket, Helen Wilmans resolved to found a news¬ 
paper of her own. It was a success before it was born! 
To the proprietor of the boarding house who, suspicious 
of her early return, questioned her regarding her ability 
to meet her bill, she told her decision to work for others 
no longer and of her plan, and read to him her first 
editorial, “I can and I will.” listening to the ringing 


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Life in its Fulness 


words of freedom and power till his soul was aflame 
and his face illumined, he cried out with enthusiasm, 
‘Til gamble on you; I have twenty thousand dollars in 
the bank, and you can draw on every dollar if you like!” 
This she refused, but asked simply that lie extend her 
credit for a short while. Three days later, money began 
to flow to her,—subscriptions for her paper, donations, 
etc. Thus Helen Wilmans relates how she rose from 
the deepest poverty to the accumulation of great wealth, 
how she started out penniless with her entire possessions 
in a valise, and eventually built a city in Florida. 

The following dialogue is an extract from That 
Something, by W. W. Woodbridge: “There is ‘That 
Something’ in every man’s soul which can move the 
mountains or dry the seas.” “Then,” said I, “you must 
be Faith!” “Yes,” came the answer, “I am Faith, but 
I am more than Faith. I am that which makes men 
face the fires of hell and win.” “Then,” said I, “you 
must be Confidence as well.” “I am more than Confi¬ 
dence. I am that which makes the babbling brooks lift 
worlds upon their wavelets.” “You are Power,” I 
cried. “I am more than Power,” answered the voice. 
“I am that which makes the wretched failure lift up 
himself and rule the world.” “You are Ambition, I 
know you now,” I cried. “Yes,” answered the voice, 
“I am all you say, Faith, Confidence, Power, Ambition, 
and more. For greater than all is ‘That Something.’ 
I am that which every man must find in his soul, or 
else he will be but a clutterer of the earth on which 
he lives. . . . This is the secret . . . the talis¬ 

man of success ... I Will.” 

“The human will, that force unseen, 

The offspring of a deathless soul, 

Can hew a way to any goal, 

Though walls of granite intervene.” 


CHAPTER XII 

CONCENTRATION 

r I A HERE are various means for setting in motion, 
operating, and applying the wonderful law of 
attraction. One of the most scientific and powerful 
mediums known to psychologists is desire vibrating along 
the lines of Mental Imagery. 

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream so shall 
you become. Your vision is the promise of what you 
shall one day be. Your ideal is the prophecy of what 
you shall at last unveil.” 

“Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” 

It is an old occult maxim that we grow to be like 
the thing we keep constantly in our minds. It has often 
been noticed that husbands and wives who hold a very 
high regard for each other come to look alike. 

The art of visualization, of forming a clear, mental 
picture of the thing desired, is both constructive and 
destructive. The Hindus are known to hold a mental 
picture with intense concentration, inducing and direct¬ 
ing such energetic vibratory waves against an enemy as 
to kill him in a few hours. 

We are concerned, however, in these lessons only 
with the constructive, creative forces. Hold in your 
mind’s eye the idea of what you wish to be; picture the 
highest and best conditions for yourself; visualize the 
success you yearn to attain; imagine vividly the pros¬ 
perous situation for which you are ambitious, with the 
fixed purpose of obtaining what you want, and your 
ideals will become real, your dreams will come true. 
Remember that the clearer and stronger you construct 


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this mental image, the better and larger results materi¬ 
alize, and that the form which the mind images is the 
pattern after which the law of attraction builds by the 
forces set in motion. 

Having acquired the faculty of forming the clear- 
cut, well-defined picture in your mind, cultivate the 
focusing of the attention upon the object of desire. 
Learn to concentrate your mind, to polarize your 
thought. To realize your vision speedily, to accomplish 
the object of your desire with dispatch, to complete the 
purpose of your intelligent, conscious direction of 
thought forms, you should mentally mark out a straight 
path, and, allowing nothing to swerve you either to the 
right or to the left, concentrate all your forces in the one 
supreme effort to achieve that goal. 

One can concentrate on anything one is intensely 
interested in or dearly loves, so that it absorbs all one’s 
thoughts and energies to the exclusion of everything 
and everybody in the world; hence the proverbial 
“absent-minded” professor and the person “in love.” 
It is the only explanation of how it was that an old lady 
could enter a burning building and, unaided, carry out 
a piano. It also explains the phenomenon of the Fiji 
Islanders’ being able in their religious orgies to walk 
barefooted and unharmed over a bed of stones heated 
to white heat. 

“The key to success in the line of all mental and 
spiritual achievement is control of the attention, the 
ability to concentrate and hold the attention upon any 
given point at will.”—Dr. John Dewey. 

“If my mind is not engaged in the worship, it is as 
if I worshiped not.”—Confucius. 

The “majority” that rules is constituted not of num- 


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61 


bers, but of those who have depth, concentration, and 
fixity of thought. 

“Powder flashed in the pan never sends a ball to 
any mark.” You must learn to concentrate the powers 
of your will upon the object desired, just as the sun¬ 
glass concentrates rays of the sun upon a common focus. 
Then hold your attention and purpose, steadily directing 
a constant stream of mental forces to a common center, 
in unison with the operation of the law of attraction. 
This law can be applied to anything you really want. 

Alexander Graham Bell testifies to having warmed 
his feet in severely cold weather by concentrated thought 
force. This method of quickening the circulation of 
the blood is well known. By the imperial quality of 
the will, one can marshal and mass the forces of his 
attention upon a subject and think the desired thought 
as long and as strongly as he wishes. 

Miss Annie Abbott, “the Georgia magnet,” weigh¬ 
ing but one hundred fifteen pounds, thus explains why 
five able-bodied men cannot lift her nor budge her from 
the floor, and how she overcomes natural law. Says she, 
“The man does not live who can lift, move, or even 
sway me off my feet when I focus my mind against it. 
As a child of eight years, I got to thinking that if I 
willed it I could turn myself into a pillar of salt. I used 
to tell my old black mammy that I was a pillar of salt 
and that she could not lift me, and sure enough, she 
couldn’t!” 

The power of concentrated thought, operating with 
the law of attraction, is again illustrated in the following 
practical, personal demonstration: I was writing a 
scenario for a well-known film manufacturing company, 
entitled The Great Juggernaut of Hindustan, in which I 






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pictured a white yogi entering this famous temple, and 
certain occurrences within. Now, it is a fact that no 
white person has ever succeeded in penetrating those 
sacred precincts; and, being without any data whatever, 
I was at a loss as to how to create the scenes, which I 
was exceedingly anxious to depict with historical exact¬ 
itude. Vainly I searched through a number of libraries, 
when one day, by deliberately setting myself to write 
and describe those interior scenes, my thoughts took 
definite form and outline; I seemed to know the number 
of chambers and the arrangement of them. A few hours 
later, going down a street in Los Angeles, I met a couple 
of East Indians. Our conversation turned to India; 
and one of them said to his friend and to me, “By the 
way, I must tell you of a great experience I once had 
at Puri by the Sea, when, disguised as a Hindu, I fol¬ 
lowed the pilgrims into the Juggernaut Temple at the 
risk of my life.” Then this Mohammedan’s hair- 
raising narrative concluded with a description of the 
reception hall, the worship chamber, the sanctum sanc¬ 
torum, etc.; and I found it accorded exactly with that 
which I had previously obtained from my supercon¬ 
scious mind. 


CHAPTER XIII 

DECISION 

np O one accustomed to concentrate, the object of 
desire comes almost immediately; things begin at 
once to manifest on the outer plane. However, it is 
important that you decide first what it is you want. 
Unformed longings and vague desires are ineffectual. 
Concentrating upon a confused idea results in failure. 
If you were going to send a telegram to a friend, you 
would not take words at random from a dictionary and 
expect him to construct the message. When you pro¬ 
ceed to impress your wants upon formless substance, 
you must know exactly what it is you wish and be 
definite and purposeful. 

Success depends not alone upon the quality, inten¬ 
sity, and duration of thought, but upon its application 
also. “Be careful of the thing you set your heart upon,” 
said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “for it surely shall be 
yours.” Plan your work; work your plan. 

“The longer I live, the more certain I am that the 
great difference between men, between the feeble and the 
powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy—invin¬ 
cible determination—a purpose once fixed, and the vic¬ 
tory or death.”—Buxton. 

While plowing a stony field in the New Hampshire 
hills, Daniel Webster decided that he would be a states¬ 
man. Lincoln owed his success to the same principle 
of self-determination. When “Diamond Jim” Brady 
decided to sell railroad supplies instead of being a hotel 
porter, he put all the money he had into a one hundred 
dollar bill, tore the bill in two, and sent one-half in to 







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a great railroad man with this message, “The other 
half of this would like to see you.” The man saw him, 
Brady got a good order, and not long ago left a large 
fortune to Johns Hopkins University. 

When Jane Addams left college, she was in such poor 
health that physicians told her she could not live more 
than six months. “All right,” said she, “I will take 
that six months to get as near as I can to the one thing 
I want to do for humanity.” How well Miss Addams 
has demonstrated the law given herein, is seen by those 
who know of her restoration to health and the great 
philanthropic work she has accomplished these many 
years. 

The same principle and high resolve is well illus¬ 
trated on that historic voyage of Columbus, when seek¬ 
ing the new world. After many weary weeks of 
wandering on an apparently limitless ocean, with a 
mutinous crew threatening to put their leader in chains, 
with the same immovable faith, the same inflexibility 
of purpose, unswerving, undaunted, Columbus thus 
wrote daily in the log book, “This day we sailed west 
because it was our course.” 

A very striking proof of the psychology and signifi¬ 
cant force of decision is found in that incident at Verdun 
in 1916, when a French general flashed his expressed 
resolution to the entire army, in that memorable 
onslaught of the enemy, when all hope seemed to be 
gone ,—“Ills ne passeront pas” The idea, the very 
phrase, passed by word of mouth all down the line, 
from battalion to battalion; it swept the very country; 
everyone was electrified by it; it seemed to bring a 
wondrous conscious purpose born of new life, fresh 
hopes, and renewed energy. The soldiers became 


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hypnotized by the constant repetition of the expression, 
“They shall not pass.” The mighty suggestion of 
invincibility in the words was literally the decisive factor 
in the battle. Even the wounded in their delirium 
would repeat, “They shall not pass,”—and they did not! 


CHAPTER XIV 

ACCELERATION 


E have seen that the whole material universe is a 



VV system of vibrations, every combination bearing 
its exact mathematical relationship to all the other parts; 
that the law of rhythm is constant and everywhere 
present; that nothing remains motionless, but is ever 
swinging like a pendulum to and fro between the two 
poles of its being; that everything rises and falls and 
moves in cycles. We have learned that different kinds 
of motions produce all the varieties of matter; that 
every atom, human being, thing, and condition has its 
definite numerical value; that thought is vibration; that 
this law applies to everything and everybody every¬ 
where, and when understood may be pressed into 
service and utilized to advantage. 

We are impressed also with the fact that thought, 
operating by and through the law of attraction, produces 
after its kind; that mental attitude is the result of the 
current of one’s thoughts, ideas, ideals, feelings, and 
beliefs; that the prevailing mental state, consciously or 
unconsciously, attracts those qualities with which one is 
in harmony, determining the physical condition, the 
environment—material, psychical, and spiritual—and 
even the financial status of a person. 

There are thought currents in the mental realm, 
powerfully significant, just as there are air currents 
in the atmosphere and ocean currents in the seas; and 
you cannot escape the fact that the individual who 
thinks, talks, pictures, and expects prosperity is drawn 
into the prosperity thought currents of the world. 


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The ether, moving in waves and currents, is in all, 
through all, communicates with all, can influence all, 
and can be influenced by all. The thought-picture of 
your desires is taken up by this formless substance and 
permeated to great distances, according to the intensity 
of the concentrated purpose. As this impression 
spreads, all things in harmony with these vibrations 
are set moving in your direction toward a common 
center for its realization; every living thing, every inani¬ 
mate thing, and the things as yet uncreated, in line with 
these motions, exert their forces toward bringing into 
being, visibility, and manifestation that which you want. 

In wireless telegraphy we have an analogy that 
enables us to understand more readily the action of the 
mind. One of the principal lessons it teaches is that 
if the transmitter is unable to generate sufficient energy, 
the vibrations cannot be excited in the ether; also, that 
if the receiver is out of resonance, however slightly, it 
cannot pick up and receive the message sent. The brain 
is but a receiving station; thought does not originate 
there. The quality of our thoughts depends upon the 
tuning of our instrument. 

The ordinary wireless station such as the govern¬ 
ment maintains at Arlington, and which can be heard 
across the Atlantic, uses a wave of 18,000 meters in 
length. A giant receiver used by Doctor Millener 
recently, in an effort to get into communication with 
Mars, can be tuned to receive waves of more than 
300,000 meters. The instrument was started with a 
short wave, and, as its capacity was increased and its 
radius extended, the world’s wireless business was picked 
up. First, a school station in Kansas was talking. 
Next Hawaii was picked up, communicating with San 
Francisco. Then Berlin was heard calling Mexico 


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City. Again, a station on the coast of Venezuela was 
sending a message to Madrid. Valparaiso also was 
heard talking with London. Back and forth the appa¬ 
ratus flashed, its wavelength running the gamut from 
16,000 to 300,000 meters. Through and beyond all earth 
zones, in his endeavor to hear any interplanetary mes¬ 
sage, Dr. Millener tuned his receiver, until all sounds 
had ceased; he was in the infinite. 

As soon as you think of any thing, you are instantly 
in touch, along the lines of the ether, with the thoughts 
or lines of force that constitute the thing thought of. 
A strong thinker vitalizes his thoughts and projects them 
powerfully; and you are to be instructed herewith how 
to induce a higher tension of consciousness, how to 
pitch and attune the vibrations, thus raising the actual 
plane of both the creative and the attractive power of 
intelligently directed thought. 

As man can quicken his pulse and accelerate his 
circulation by thought, so has he also the power to speed 
up his auric vibrations and to raise his tones from 
negative to positive. It is his province to convert his 
weak, scattered, vacillating thoughts to forceful, direct, 
purposeful ones, to beat with the pulse of universal 
thought of the highest ideals of life, in unison, sym¬ 
pathy, and cooperation with the currents, energies, and 
forces of friendships, health, prosperity, and success, in 
the measure of his need, all he can use, here and now. 
Hence, meditating, talking, reading, picturing, expecting, 
acting prosperity, precipitates it. 

Ponder well the statements made in this book; think 
seriously of them; note the fact that many people all 
over the world know them and practice these things 
every day, every hour. Now they will mean no more 
to you than the mere glancing over a menu would mean 


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to a hungry man in a restaurant, unless recognizing, 
acknowledging, believing these laws, you commence to 
apply them; unless demonstrating these principles, you 
come into a personal knowledge of their truth, and they 
find expression and manifestation in your life and reach 
your inmost consciousness. Accumulated evidences of 
repeated demonstrations will then serve as powerful 
stimuli to stress the conscious energy, to raise the vibra¬ 
tions, and to augment the high frequency of purposely- 
directed, intelligently-applied, concentrated, expectant 
thought. 

As a means of tuning up the entire being, genuine 
love of philanthropy cannot be excelled on the earth 
plane. Do good to everybody. You can make no mis¬ 
take in being especially kind to little children, to widows 
and orphans, and to the needy everywhere. 

However, it is to be pointed out to you later that the 
greatest method of raising the vibrations is by Spirit, 
through the inspiration and power of the silence, com¬ 
munion, meditation, waiting on God, intercession, prayer, 
with songs of praise “making melody in your heart to 
the Lord.” 


CHAPTER XV 

SUGGESTION 


NOTHER and highly important method by which 



we can utilize our ever-ready and available forces 
is that of Suggestion. 

As we have learned in a preceding section, the sub¬ 
conscious mind is not only a vast storehouse of reliable 
information and original inspiration, but, our mental 
organism with its limitless faculties and powers being 
almost altogether under its control, it is also a reservoir 
of boundless energy. 

When we understand rightly how to reach it, the 
subconscious mind is a source of power that we can 
draw on, just as we turn on power from a steam pipe or 
by an electric switch; and this Titan within us, harnessed 
and directed, will work for us twenty-four hours in the 
day with definite, dependable, desirable results. It gives 
evidences of an ability to aid us in various ways, direct 
and indirect, in the ordinary details of daily occupation. 

Now, the very essence of suggestion lies in the idea 
of impressing a person’s mind. It is a process of think¬ 
ing and expressing a thing so positively, earnestly, and 
convincingly, that another accepts the idea, believes it, 
and acts upon it. Applied to one’s subconscious self, it 
is termed autosuggestion. 

The best and most effective form of suggestion known 
to the psychologist is Affirmation. We are all aware of 
the reaction of reiterated untruth. A lie repeated often 
enough actually comes to be believed by the man who 
tells it. A person may act out a certain assumed char¬ 
acter until he really takes on those characteristics. For 


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this reason actors sometimes insist upon changing plays 
and parts to avoid a growing and undesirable likeness 
that they discover is being acted out in their normal lives. 

To use affirmations successfully, it is important that 
they be positive, that they correspond with your desire, 
and that they be based on Truth. For the materially- 
minded man to state that he is well when sick avails him 
nothing whatsoever. A denial is an affirmation; do not 
make statements denying facts, thereby emphasizing a 
negative condition. Think only of and affirm that which 
you would realize and manifest. 

In employing affirmations, it is highly desirable to 
make them audible. The vibratory, creative force of 
words uttered and directed intelligently is a powerful 
factor either for good or ill. Certain bold, clear-cut 
statements are very dynamic. 

The Divine Name is composed of the four letters, 
JHVH; and it is said that whosoever rightly pronounces 
it causes heaven and earth to tremble, and that nothing 
can withstand the force of the tremendous vibrations 
excited by the utterer. The same idea runs through all 
the venerated traditions of the Orient concerning the 
sacred syllable OM. 

From the Bible statement that Adam gave a name to 
every living thing brought to him, we are led to think 
that he had this understanding. The Kabbalists declare 
that when the right name is given, every creature is com¬ 
pelled to answer to it. If the name be miscalled or in 
any wise mispronounced, no certain results are obtainable. 

Through the sense of hearing, the plexes of nerves 
in the human body catch the vibrations sent out from 
the source of sound and vibrate sympathetically with 
them, just as the strings of one instrument will respond 
to waves of sound set in motion by the plucking of the 


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strings of another. The power of the attractive and 
creative word is seen in its influence when scandal is cir¬ 
culated, in exaggerating and accumulating to itself almost 
immediately all the kindred vibrations and currents. 

Provoked by her child's repeated call of “Mother,” 
a busy woman once unwisely expressed the wish that 
she might never hear that word again. Soon thereafter 
her little one died, and it is of record that five others 
were born to her both deaf and dumb! 

Mere words, mere sounds, are much less efifective. 
The most elaborate ritual observance would be of little 
avail unless coupled with mental emphasis. Thoughts 
are higher vibrations than spoken words and they “carry” 
farther and more quickly. When you employ affirma¬ 
tions, be sure to combine them with concentrated thought 
energy; let them be clear, definite statements or orders, 
realizing that whatever you voice consciously is taken 
up by the subconscious mind and echoed many fold more 
intensely, and that even in sleep the mind will carry on 
the train of thought. 

Talk to your mentality and body as you would to a 
patient; the message you affirm is transcribed by thought 
and carried into action. The wearing of low shoes never 
failed to result in a certain professor’s catching cold; so, 
having an understanding of this principle, he decided one 
day to treat himself. Putting on a pair of low shoes, he 
went out onto the wet lawn and, addressing his feet, 
said, “Now, don’t you ever cause me to catch cold again,” 
—and he testifies that they have not! 

It is a simple yet practical inherent law that unites in 
action the waking personality or objective phase of mind 
with the subconscious, causing the latter to obey you 
implicitly when you have learned to command it. Fix 
in your subconscious mind by repeated impressions, 


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audible affirmations, and emphatic suggestions those 
characteristics, qualities, ideas, and conditions correspond¬ 
ing to your desires. 

Take, for example, the thought of abundance ex¬ 
pressed in the title of this book; affirm it repeatedly, 
intelligently, consciously, in a personal way, until the 
idea—with all that it implies to your situation—vibrates 
in and through you like a powerful engine, pulsating 
radiations of unlimited force in consonance with universal 
supply. And yet, on a higher plane, you will be shown a 
more excellent way. 


CHAPTER XVI 

POSITIVITY 


I N relation to the law of attraction there are yet other 
and important factors to he reckoned with, not the 
least of which is a right understanding, cultivation, 
and maintenance of a Positive Mental Attitude towards 
life. The law of attraction has two sides or poles and 
works both ways. The difference between negative and 
positive mental states is the difference between failure 
and success and between backward and forward action, 
all down or up the line. 

Fear will set in motion the law of attraction just the 
same as desire, for it is the negative pole of desire and is 
a powerful disintegrating force. Fear of failure brings 
it to you. A beginner on a bicycle thinks of the telegraph 
pole in front and assuredly runs into it, operating the 
same well-known law. Over-anxious parents ignorantly 
create a negative atmosphere about their children, the 
fear-elements of which make escape from disaster almost 
impossible. Lest he come to some harm, the richest boy 
in the world was from infancy carefully protected by a 
retinue of guards; but through a gate accidentally left 
ajar, the lad rushed out and was instantly killed by a 
passing automobile. 

Fear, being a thought-creative power forming and 
framing its own mental pictures, is extremely magnetic, 
with a constant tendency toward the materialization of 
the things and conditions feared. As the Bible relates, 
“The thing I greatly feared is come upon me.” 

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; 

The valiant never taste of death but once.” 


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“The plague killed 5,000 people; 50,000 died of fear,” 
says an Oriental proverb. “Ignorance and fear kill over 
50,000,000 people a year,” records Rawson. People who 
prepare for and look for a thing, anticipating, dreading, 
fearing it, usually precipitate it. “Chickens come home 
to roost.” 

The greatest schemer cannot “gather grapes of thorns, 
nor figs of thistles.” “As a man soweth so shall he also 
reap” is mathematically exact, no matter what his belief 
may be relative to incarnation, discarnation, or reincar¬ 
nation. 

Fear is the mother of all negative emotions; these 
break up the straight line of effort, dissipating and 
exhausting all constructive, creative energies, rendering 
them ineffectual, impotent, and useless, and leading 
directly, inevitably, invariably to failure. If you are 
sensitive enough, you can feel the atmosphere of repul¬ 
sion around a negative person and the attractive quality 
also of a positive the moment you come into his presence. 

“Fear, anger, jealousy, lust, and kindred thoughts 
manufacture disease germs, and no sanitation or serum 
will ever stop their devastation.” He who hates is an 
assassin. The Scripture, “They that take the sword 
shall perish with the sword,” warns us of the inexorable 
law. “Nothing can work me damage except myself; 
the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and am a 
real sufferer but by my own fault,” said Saint Bernard. 
As Swinburne also wrote: 

“Thy bonds and thy beliefs are one in kind, 

And of thy fears thine irons wrought, 

Having weights upon thee, fashioned 
Out of thine own thought.” 

Cassius was right when he said, 

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” 





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One reason why our mental attitude, our hopes and 
fears, our joys and sorrows influence our lives so tre¬ 
mendously is because of the intimate relation between 
the mental life and the body cells. Every thought, every 
emotion, every impression made upon the mind affects 
these very industrious, intelligent, living cells and, con¬ 
sequently, all the vital processes and the entire organism. 
Selfish, hateful emotions generate currents of thought, 
the volts of which burn up the body cells in the same 
manner that a live wire sears the flesh. The 
human tissue when put under right conditions is self- 
renewing. No one can enjoy health who is a victim of 
despondency, worry, or fear; these make for wretched¬ 
ness, disease, and death. No wonder Christ warned us 
against them and earnestly exhorted us to be of good 
cheer, to hope and trust, and to have confidence, assur¬ 
ance, and faith. It is largely because of discouragement 
that each day in the “civilized” world five hundred 
people commit suicide. “As for the world, I count it not 
an inn, but an hospital; not a place to live in, but to die 
in,” says the hypochondriac. This earth is not a vale of 
tears, except as you make it so. 

An old proverb says, “The foolish have one master,— 
that is fear.” It is the dominant note in a great many 
lives. 

“There is no more sure effectual depressant, no surer 
harbinger of disease, than fear.”—Dr. Lloyd Tuckey. 

“Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood which, if 
continued, affects the organs of digestion.”—Pythagoras. 

“He that grieves much is a magnet to attract waste 
of property.”—Socrates. 

‘‘To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 

Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”— Shakespeare. 


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“The surest way to be attacked with an infectious 
disease is to be afraid of it, whilst the physician under 
like circumstances is very rarely attacked.”—Dr. E. V. 
Hartmann. 

This testimony is recorded by a translator of the 
Bible, the martyr Tyndale: “In burning the books they 
did none other thing than I looked for; no more shall 
they do if they burn me also,”—and of course the 
Inquisitionists did. 

“Not poisoned, but dead because she thought she had 
been poisoned,” was the singular verdict pronounced by 
Coroner Springer after performing an autopsy on the 
body of Virginia Jackson, a negro woman of Chicago. 

Any sudden emotion of grief or pleasure, unexpected 
news—either good or bad, true or false,—suspense or 
anticipation, disturbing the thought, makes the heart 
beat faster or slower or even stops it entirely and, 
through chemical changes, can make the hair turn white 
with lightening-like rapidity. While certain suggestions 
energize, others enervate. How common are the expres¬ 
sions : “I was feeling splendidly until he said that”; 
“When I heard that, it took all the life out of me.” 

Thoughts of fear may not only cause a cold perspira¬ 
tion to break out over the whole body or send the blood 
away from the surface, but may cause such muscular 
tension that paralysis, severe illness, or even death fol¬ 
lows. It is a well-known fact that a blindfolded criminal 
died in a few minutes through believing he was bleeding 
to death, yet he lost not a drop of blood. 

In a series of most comprehensive experiments, Pro¬ 
fessor Gates has dealt fully with the results of thinking. 
He found that change of the mental state changed the 
chemical character of the perspiration. When treated 
with the same chemical reagent, the perspiration of an 


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angry man showed one color, that of a man in grief 
another, and so on through the long list of emotions. 
After saying that hate is accompanied by the greatest 
expenditure of vital energy, he enumerates several of its 
chemical products, all poisonous, and concludes by saying, 
“Enough would be eliminated in one hour of intense hate 
by a man of average strength to cause the death of per¬ 
haps four score persons, as these ptomaines are the 
deadliest poisons known to science.” And again, “Every 
emotion of a false and disagreeable nature produces a 
poison in the blood and cell tissues. . . My experi¬ 

ments show that irascible, malevolent, and depressing 
emotions generate in the system injurious compounds, 
some of which are extremely poisonous; also that agree¬ 
able, happy emotions generate chemical compounds of 
nutritious value, which stimulate the cells to manufacture 
energy.” 

Now, just as we have seen that there are helpful, 
constructive ethereal currents of positivity expressed in 
health, prosperity, and success, so also are there currents 
everywhere in the universe corresponding to their 
opposites, destructive and damning. 

When one contemplates self-destruction, one is im¬ 
mediately in rapport with and attracts to oneself the 
thought-forces operating along the lines of the ether with 
that specific vibration. Dwell upon the idea, and it will 
develop and gather momentum so quickly that you will 
be amazed at the accumulation of ways and means that 
will suggest themselves and the “reasons” that will be 
furnished. If you deliberately choose the path of selfish¬ 
ness, hatred, malevolent thoughts and emotions, there is 
no power in the world to prevent you from committing 
suicide. 

When a man allows the elements of anger, malice, 


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and revenge to operate in him, these negatives not only 
dampen and deaden the vibrations, poison the blood, and 
affect undesirably the whole physical organism, but they 
depolarize and demagnetize him and his life and under¬ 
mine his interests generally. Through the law of repul¬ 
sion, they weaken and incapacitate the mind, dissipate 
the forces, paralyze useful effort and finely thought out 
plans, replace ideal friendships with the lasting enmity of 
his fellows, put him “in danger of the judgment” of God, 
invite accidents, doctor bills, and material disasters that 
spell financial ruin, give wings to prosperity, and cause 
him to gravitate downward with the beasts that perish. 

When one is actively jealous, he is generating and 
sending out great blasts and powerful streams of energy, 
pregnant with very real vibrations of terrible destructive¬ 
ness, that agitate the ether and that synchronize with the 
currents of suspicion, envy, and malignancy that sweep 
over his being, collecting their toll as they pass. Accumu¬ 
lating the forces of all that harmonize with them, they 
rebound upon a person with manifold strength and 
intensified, far-reaching, hell-bound compensations. 

The negative man says, “I’m unlucky,” “I never could 
do things right,” “Nothing good ever came my way,” 
“Everything turns out wrong for me”; and he begins 
with, “But,” “What if,” “Supposing.” He pessimistically 
says, “It cannot be done”; but these days he is often 
interrupted by an optimistic, positive character’s doing 
it. The words, “It is too good to be true,” are like stones 
that automatically construct a wall between a man and 
prosperity, an impassable barrier to progress. “If” costs 
people fortunes; “but” is followed by a big penalty. “I 
can’t” has kept many an invalid bedridden, until a fire 
or some danger has suddenly found him with the ability 
to jump up and run to safety. 


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“Have faith in your God-given power to succeed in 
a worthy ambition; concentrate your efforts on its real¬ 
ization and nothing on earth can keep you back from 
success. Such a mental attitude will make you a winner 
from the start, because you always head towards your 
thought, your conviction of yourself. If your very face, 
your bearing, your conversation, indicate victory, if you 
carry yourself like a winner, people will believe in you. 
Their thought of you, added to your own, makes an 
irresistible force that urges you toward your goal.”— 
Harden. 

One does not want to learn only how to avoid all 
undesirable effects by controlling the source of anxiety, 
fear, distrust, etc., and merely to be freed from or relieved 
of a negative condition, but to be occupied and filled with 
their opposites, with the positive, helpful, invigorating, 
compelling ideals of courage, self-reliance, confidence, 
and expectation of that which one desires. Forebodings, 
worries, vain regrets, remorse, and despair weaken your 
mental forces and powerfully attract their affinities. 
Exterminate this vampire of fear; destroy and eradicate 
every negative thought and image, root and branch, so 
that you do not externalize them; drive out and banish 
destructiveness with constructiveness, negatives with 
positives, weakness with strength, fear with courage, and 
distrust with faith, as you would displace and neutralize 
acid with alkali, hatred with love, disease with health, 
discord with harmony, and error with Truth, and as you 
would dispel darkness in a room by letting the sun¬ 
shine in. 

Denial of a negative may only increase it; destructive 
thoughts are intensified by dwelling upon them. The 
tendency to visualize and materialize undesirable qual¬ 
ities comes of contemplation. A marksman does not 


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give his attention to places and things he is to miss, but 
is concerned only with the bull’s-eye on which he is to 
concentrate his efforts. The philosophy that so fervently 
denies the existence of disease is in reality emphasizing 
the fear of it, setting in motion vibrations that correspond 
with its disturbing elements. 

The all-hail, jubilant, optimistic attitude, by raising 
one’s pitch, puts one immediately in touch with and in 
command of vital, rhythmical, harmonious, relaxing, 
soothing, healing influences. It is significant that special¬ 
ists in folk music maintain that oppressed peoples always 
express themselves in the minor mode. Since “thoughts 
are things and from their tints our world must take its 
hue,” we should counteract all depressing, negative men¬ 
tal states with harmonic reactions of wholesome, cheer¬ 
ful, positive major tones. 

A friend in Egypt, inured to Oriental travel, said to 
me, “When you get to India, you are going to experience 
entirely new and untoward conditions in every way. 
Take my advice and sing,—sing all you can; when your 
song is gone, you will die.” Seven years later, my song 
all but ended, I was shipped out of that country more 
dead than alive. That man was a philosopher; he under¬ 
stood the highest psychological law. 

Some people have a multitude of troubles, most of 
which never happen. It is interesting to note that the 
modern incubator materialized through the death of a 
sitting hen, whose financial loss a woman mourned 
greatly, but which, putting an idea into her mind, made 
for her three millions of dollars! I once read of a man 
who, believing that his only source of supply came from 
a little piece of stony land, thought he had lost his sole 
dependence when the faithful old horse with which he 
used to peddle his garden truck died; but while digging 


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a hole in which to bury the animal he turned up nugget 
after nugget of gold! 

It has been well said that misery comes from miser¬ 
able thoughts which come from a miserable mind. A 
prosperous business has its birth in some one’s prosperous 
thoughts. That “an enterprise thrives on genuine ideas 
of success, energy, confidence, and substance, but declines 
on thoughts of failure, laziness, fear, and doubt,” is 
excellent commercial advice. 

“That man is poor who thinks himself poor.” Change 
of thought, not change of skies, brings beneficial results. 
Circumstances alter in exact ratio to one’s altered mental 
attitude. They can rise and conquer who believe they 
can. “I can’t” shuts the door; “I can and I will” opens 
wide the portals of opportunity into a large and prosper¬ 
ous field of endeavor, progress, and supremacy. Renounce 
every negative thought and condition, now and forever; 
reject all thought waves of inharmony and destructive¬ 
ness ; change your polarity; develop and exercise positive 
mental qualities which stimulate, vitalize, and energize. 
Sow peanuts, reap but peanuts; think in pennies and the 
result is pence. “Not failure, but low aim is crime.” 
Fish in deep waters; think in terms of high numbers. 
A positive mental attitude wins material success. 

“If you think you’re beaten, you are; 

If you think you dare not, you don’t; 

If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, 

It’s almost a cinch you won’t. 

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost, 

For out in the world we find 
Success begins with a f ellow’s will; 

It’s all in the state of mind.” 


CHAPTER XVII 

INHERENT ENERGY 

I N the smallest particle of matter is mirrored the 
infinitely great. The atom, with its ever busy group 
of electrons, is a minute replica of our solar system. The 
little worlds and the gigantic ones are copies of the whole. 

Man, too, is an epitome of the universe. All human 
beings have elements and characteristics in them corre¬ 
sponding to the higher and lower orders of every created 
thing,—to the substances in the minerals, to the proper¬ 
ties in the vegetables, to the propensities in the animals, 
to the finer qualities of the celestials; consequently, it is 
quite natural that some are called cats or angels, others 
likened unto a sheep’s head or a cabbage head, while the 
doctor informs us that we all have too much or too little 
iron in the blood! 

In the material world, plants feed upon minerals, 
animals subsist on plants and minerals, and man devours 
all three. Material science tells us that man’s body con¬ 
tains a portion of all the elements in the sun, the earth, 
and the air. We cannot conceive of anything we do not 
contain, and it is believed by many that all the inventions 
ever thought of or that ever will be thought of are but 
reproductions of mechanisms found in the human body. 

Not only does psychology find that man responds to 
all the emotions and vibrations of the sentient world 
about him and that the sensory impulses set up externally 
by etheric energies impart to his consciousness, according 
to their rates of motion, the sensations called light, heat, 
etc., but that there are forces radiating and operating 
from the center of his being, out through the various 


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nerve centers of the human organism. It is the fact that 
we are reservoirs, dynamos of tremendous, concentrated, 
creative, latent energy, that has caused so much mystery 
to be attached to our occult powers by the uninitiated. 

We have been taught to depend upon things external. 
Even the old idea of education was to cram the student’s 
mind with extrinsic matter, whereas the very word 
signifies the drawing out of something that already exists 
interiorly. “Long sought without but found within” is 
a true philosophical saying. One does not need to go to 
India or to Egypt, indeed, not outside of one’s own 
chamber, in search of Truth and power. 

That which moves the world of men and things is 
within you. You have a gold mine awaiting develop¬ 
ment. You are a giant of power if you did but know it. 
There are unsuspected talents, undreamed of possibilities, 
mighty capabilities—storage batteries of wonderful 
potentiality—passing the wildest imaginings, hidden in 
the recesses of one’s being, by most people unrecognized 
and unappreciated, awaiting the magic command of the 
will to intelligently accelerate, harness, and capitalize. 
This is no superstitious idea, but a firmly established, 
well-proven, demonstrable, scientific, philosophical, psy¬ 
chological, metaphysical Truth, the proper recognition, 
understanding, development, and utilization of which is 
the master key to the science of creative thought. H. P. 
Blavatsky wrote of “the mysterious power of thought 
which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phe¬ 
nomenal results by its own inherent energy.” 

No matter what disagreements there may be among 
them concerning Cause and its manifestations, all the 
various schools of occultism unite in stating that man 
contains not only the elements of all the kingdoms of the 
world, but the forces also, resident and inherent in him. 


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However the teachings of modern psychologists may 
differ touching man’s origin and destiny, all agree that 
not only has everything a center of force, but that in 
every individual there are dormant faculties, latent 
powers, dynamic energies, living forces within that await 
the hour of their call to action. To this Truth adhere 
universally ancients and mystics, philosophers and adepts, 
metaphysicians and mental scientists of all ages. All 
occult literature and the sacred books of the world 
religions, including the Bible, teach this fundamental 
principle. The true Greek translation of Hebrews 13:15 
is as follows: “Be ye conscious that ye have contained 
within yourselves all capacity.” All emphasize the 
central fact that whatever a man can adequately conceive 
of can be achieved by him. 

Professor William James, the great psychologist, 
asserted that each of us has resources of which he does 
not dream. 

‘'There are infinite powers lying dormant in man, 
here, now,—powers which, could he but catch a glimpse 
of, would endow his life on this planet with greater 
splendor and impart to it a redoubled interest.”—Lovell. 

“The truth is that all have untold treasures of power 
locked in their inner being. In fact, all are millionaires, 
but their priceless treasures will remain useless to them 
till some one informs them of their own possessions and 
hands them the key with which to unlock them.”—Babbitt. 

In his book, How to Get What You Want, Orison 
Swett Marden tells of a poor youth who, while working 
as a scullion in a kitchen in Italy, got his first glimpse of 
a great painting, the sight of which aroused in him some¬ 
thing he had never felt before. It revealed a new artistic 
impulse, causing him to exclaim, “I, too, am a painter!” 
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work in a famous studio and finally became a greater 
artist than the painter of the picture which had inspired 
him. 


“Why has the heart restless yearnings 
For heights and steps untrod? 

Some call it the voice of longing, 

And others the voice of God.” 

Asked the cause of his vexation, a little boy sitting 
at a piano crying, replied, “I can feel the music in me, 
but I can’t make my hands go right.” Universal har¬ 
mony, all that there is of music, was seeking expression 
through that child. 

And so it is with the desire that causes you to reach 
out for knowledge, health, wealth, and prosperity. This 
very craving for something is God’s immutable promise 
indicating that it is provided and that it is yours already 
in the limitless realm of supply; and the power to attract 
it to you or for you to be attracted to it, or the energy 
needed to bring it into form and manifestation in your 
conscious life, here and now, lies this moment within you. 

All minds are formed of the same essential elements 
and possess the same powers. The degree of conscious 
knowledge of certain facts and principles and of the 
development and unfoldment of the forces within that 
seek immediate and fullest expression, constitute the dif¬ 
ference in men and in their interests also. A perfect 
answer to all the problems that have ever been in your 
life or ever will be is within you. The cause of success 
is in the person who succeeds. Prosperity comes not to 
you, but through you. 


CHAPTER XVIII 

MASTERY 

T N order for you to fully appreciate your heritage— 
your invincible, dominant, transcendent potentialities 
—you should have not only the proper understanding of 
the law of exact retribution, but also the right mental 
attitude toward the law touching man’s free will and the 
consciousness of his relation to Universal Principle. 

None of the events of man’s life is accidental, nor 
are fate and destiny mysterious uncertainties. Your 
thoughts and emotions, your bodily condition, your 
environment, the size of your bank account, are all 
governed by you, absolutely. 

The churches are about equally divided on the sub¬ 
jects of free will and predestination. There is a measure 
of Truth in each of these doctrines, for man in his 
ignorance is responsive to both laws. It has been said, 
“By destiny is properly meant whatever is possible unto 
us; by fate we should always understand the sum of 
those extraneous agencies and outward circumstances 
which appear in our path to be manipulated and event¬ 
ually mastered by us.” No one knew and demonstrated 
this fact in his life more fully than Benjamin Disraeli, 
who testified, “Man is not the creature of circumstances.” 

When a man commands an understanding and a 
realization of the laws and principles of life, he will know 
that he is not subject to any influences, planetary or 
otherwise, except those which are for his highest develop¬ 
ment and good; that fate is a word conveying but a half 
truth; that man is master in every situation; that he, 
himself, is good fortune; that there is a law which tran- 


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scends heredity and environment; that he whose life is 
governed by Spirit is controlled not alone by natural and 
physical law. 

The law of gravitation ordains that water shall flow 
down hill; nevertheless, the water in our house climbs 
upstairs every time we turn on the faucet on the second 
floor. The apparently inexorable force of one law is 
temporarily overcome by the clever use of another. Tree 
life causes the sap to ascend, not by repealing the law of 
gravity, but by surmounting it. And we shall see in a 
later chapter that, when answering prayer, God diverts 
the very courses of the universe without breaking His 
own laws. A higher law may overcome a lower one. 
Is not Edison greater than the phonograph ? Is not God 
superior to His creation? Does not Spirit transcend all 
natural law? 

Good luck is not a thing of chance. It is not a fatality 
nor a matter of stars or of karma. “You conquer fate 
by thought. If you think the fatal thought of men and 
institutions, you need never pull the trigger. The con¬ 
sequences of thinking invariably follow.” 

“All is regulated by Divine Providence except the 
conduct of man,” reads the Talmud. Dominion is man’s 
birthright. As an Aries “subject,” my horoscope indi¬ 
cates accidents to the head; and all my life I experienced 
them frequently, until I learned to recognize and practice 
the law of Spirit. 

As long as you herd with the cattle and are controlled 
by any elements on any plane lower than the spiritual, 
there is no escape from the laws of karma and kismet, 
the laws of solar biology and astrology, and the laws of 
heredity and disintegrating race consciousness. But, as 
an heir of God, appropriating your divine right, receive 
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portend, whatever the stars seem to prognosticate for 
you; and deny vigorously the power of any lower orders 
of earth-bound, elemental, or superhuman spirits, ill 
omens, or premonitory misfortunes to influence or to 
affect you, while you triumphantly and consciously 
breathe the pure air of the higher planes. 

Through an understanding of spiritual law, through 
the power of scientific right thinking, destroy all evil 
prophecies, all baneful influences, all inauspicious and 
suspicious enchantments—or the belief in such, all sug¬ 
gestions of harmful forces, real or supposed, that come 
to you from any source whatsoever; cut them off root 
and stem; short-circuit them instantly, as you will learn 
later, with glorious affirmations of Truth. 

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, 

Can circumvent or hinder or control 
The firm resolve of a determined soul. 

Gifts count for nothing, will alone is great; 

All things give way before it soon or late. 

What obstacle can stay the mighty force 
Of the sea-seeking river in its course, 

Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait? 

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves; 

Let the fools prate of luck. The fortunate 
Is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, 

Whose slightest action or inaction serves 
The one great aim. Why, even death itself stands still 
And waits an hour sometimes for such a will.” 


CHAPTER XIX 


JUVENESCENCE 


M AN lives and moves and has his being in an ocean 
of life. It is said that one has enough life in him 
to heal a nation. Health and longevity are from within. 
The fountain of perpetual youth is not in Florida. Old 
age is but a crystallization of habits. 

Birth is not only a thing of the past. Every day is 
a birthday; under all planetary conditions every moment 
is one of creation and renewal, unfoldment and develop¬ 
ment in conscious evolution. If you are not born as 
you wish and where you wish, it is not too late. It is 
scientifically known that all the tissues of the body are 
recreated, reborn, rebuilt, from every thirty to sixty 
days, and that the entire physical body is not more than 
from nine to eleven months old. 

There are many laws and forces which rule the 
physical organism in response to external environment 
and internal conditions. As long as the present ignorance 
of the laws of life prevails, and a negative, destructive 
mental attitude dominates, unhealthful conditions will be 
reproduced in the body. You are today, this hour, build¬ 
ing your body in ease or disease, to feel and look young 
or aged, according to your model and idea. The body is 
an alchemical laboratory. Mind activities afifect one 
powerfully for good or ill. Some thoughts and emotions 
poison the body; others act as an elixir, due to the fact, 
as I have shown, that every condition is, fundamentally, 
a group of vibrations. Mind is the medium between 
body and spirit, and opens or closes the floodgates of 
life and health. 


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Professor Miinsterberg, in his Lowell Institute lec¬ 
tures, said that the slightest thought influences the whole 
body. G. Stanley Hall, President of Clarke University, 
is responsible for the statement that muscle can be 
developed by thinking as well as by exercise. Sandow, 
the great teacher of physical culture, testifies to the same 
thing. 

Imagination is one of the most effectual of physical 
agencies. The mental factor is present in a great measure 
in all diseases. The blood corpuscles are little batteries, 
each with a positive and a negative pole. Positive 
thought causes the life element in them to electrify and 
energize the organism; negative thought and expression 
slow down their vitality and rob them of life force. 

A remarkable case of juvenescence was published 
some years ago in the London Lancet. On her wedding 
day, a young lady in her teens went to a railway station 
to meet a lover who did not appear. The disappointment 
affected her mind in such a manner that all cognizance 
of time was effaced from her consciousness; and for over 
fifty years she daily went to the station, radiantly happy 
and hopeful, only to repeat the experience the following 
day. A party of scientists discussing her declared that 
this well-known woman, at seventy-four years of age, 
still retained the youthful bloom and loveliness of a girl 
of eighteen. 

Optimistic thought, full of faith and hope, is a won¬ 
derful preservative. Introduce grace and cheer and love 
into everything you do and practice perfect relaxation 
and poise if you would remain young. When you rejoice, 
when you think life, all the cells of your body commence 
to vibrate faster and faster, in conscious unison with the 
thoughts entertained by the controlling mind. The leaven 
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One has said that God may forgive us if we forget to 
pray, but nature will not forgive us if we neglect to play. 

Sound, vigorous, confident affirmations, too, are 
excellent for quickly toning up the mind and body. 
Assert your realization that the fountain of perpetual 
health is within you. Affirm, “The spirit of youth 
operates in me.” If you get this consciousness, if your 
mind believes it, your body will be affected accordingly. 
If, on the other hand, you say, “I am getting old, I must 
settle down,” every little cell in every gland, organ, 
muscle, tendon, and tissue will immediately respond with 
like affirmations and will commence to react to them. Be 
assured that “every definite mental experience produces 
a definite anatomical or molecular structure in some 
particular part of the brain.” And remember also that 
the body must be properly exercised and cared for in 
order to allow the electric currents to freely circulate 
through it. You cannot trespass nature’s laws and con¬ 
tinue to be youthful and in health. Not only does the 
crossing of ethical laws hinder, but mental and physical 
laws ignored prevent healing and the full enjoyment of 
the blessings of God. 

Physiology teaches us that the body has various 
unused resources that can be awakened and centers that 
can be quickened. For instance, through deep breathing 
—for the average man uses but one-sixth of his capacity 
—one can bring into action certain centers in the lungs 
that purify and enrich the blood and which vitalize the 
entire organism. However, as Dr. Stenson Hooker truly 
says, “We shall resort to mind and 'Spirit more and more, 
for mind is stronger than muscle, and Spirit than both, 
because it masters and controls both.” 


CHAPTER XX 

SERVICE 


T N preceding chapters I have outlined the principles of 

the science of getting, but have reserved until now the 
most significant of all the laws of opulence and pros¬ 
perity,—the paradoxical secret of Giving. 

Circulation is the law of health and of life itself; 
congestion, that of decay and death. This is true on both 
the material and the spiritual planes. Nature severely 
punishes the error of hoarding. The more a man can 
desire and attract, acquire and use, of both the visible 
and the invisible supply, by so much does he ally himself 
and work harmoniously with the great natural forces 
and purposes. 

The acquisition of money is the least important step 
to the enjoyment of riches. The cheapest thing God has 
to give away is money. Its whole value, as Emerson 
says, is in knowing what to do with it. 

“Ret a thought of use stand guard over your purse 
and then spend freely.” The law of growth is based 
upon use. “Thou hoard’st in vain what love should 
spend.” Currency is but another word for circulation. 
Throughout nature’s vast domain, inactivity, disuse, and 
stagnation result in weakness, atrophy, and deterioration. 
Energy is but the reaction of use. Nature gives in 
abundance. The eternal, universal law of love ever 
manifests itself in giving freely, fully, gladly. 

The principle of receiving without furnishing any¬ 
thing is the law of inaction and degeneration. Great is 
the folly of any man who expects something for nothing. 

The rule of increase is as real and scientific as the 


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laws of mathematics. The law of abundance is summed 
up in the word give. By enriching the lives of others 
we actually enlarge our own capacity. Blessings shared 
are more than doubled. Generosity is a great dividend 
payer. “He profits most who serves best.” 

The truest sign that a person has consciously come 
into touch with the law of the Spirit is that he has entered 
into the secret that it is more blessed to give than to 
receive. Happiness does not consist in getting, but in 
giving; not in being served, but in serving. Miserliness 
brings its own reciprocation; generosity, its own reward. 
A niggardly mind manifests itself in a lean life; a lavish 
hand is blessed of God. The test of deed, not of creed, 
is important. 

You gauge your own capacity; you get proportion¬ 
ately just what you give. “He that soweth sparingly 
shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully 
shall reap also bountifully.” 

This wonderful law of compensation is thus expressed 
in the sacred Scriptures: “There is that scattereth, and 
yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is 
meet, but it tendeth to poverty” (Proverbs 11: 24). Jesus 
Christ plainly stated the infallible law of remuneration 
in these words: “Give, and it shall be given unto you; 
good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and 
running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with 
the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be mea¬ 
sured to you again.” “The liberal soul shall be made 
fat,” wrote Solomon, “and he that watereth shall be 
watered also himself.” “He that loveth his life shall 
lose it; he that loseth his life shall find it” is not vain 
philosophy, but is a most significant, scientific fact. 

There is no higher ideal, no purer religion, than 
service to one’s fellowman. Divine service means daily 


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deeds, not public worship. Life is one grand opportunity 
after another. A great many are utter strangers to the 
joy and power and beneficence of giving. There are lots 
of people who never think of stopping to speak kindly 
to a child, a cripple, or the blind, nor to impart a cheerful 
thought to the aged, nor to visit the sick, nor to search 
out someone in need. And then they wonder why they 
are never “lucky” like John Smith; why they are forever 
poor in spirit and in purse; why they are continually 
ailing and paying out all the money they can earn for 
doctors’ bills; why they have their goods destroyed, their 
money stolen, their automobile wrecked, the home burned 
down, or deaths in the family; and why they have no 
friends and no inspiration in life! 

For every uplifting thought, kind word, or noble 
deed, given without fear or favor or hope of reward, 
there is a definite and corresponding reaction. If you 
have an enemy and he needs bread, don’t offer him a 
stone or merely good advice. To feed the hungry, clothe 
the naked, shelter the poor, and care for the widows and 
orphans will cause “thy light to break forth in the morn¬ 
ing and thine health to spring forth speedily.” 

The highest expression of love is giving; the “autoc¬ 
racy of service” is love in action. Your creed should 
find frequent expression in benevolence to all those about 
you. 

“Give the world the best you have 
And the best will come back to you.” 

Giving has nothing to do with the size of one’s pocket- 
book. Giving is essentially a spiritual exercise. “If 
instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the 
gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that 
would be giving as the angels give.” 


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Repudiate cupidity; embrace charity. Generosity is 
a powerful magnet, attracting to itself the good things 
of life; it is like the never-failing magic coin of Prince 
Fortunatus. The reaction of altruism benefits the alm- 
ner. True philanthropy flourishes like a beautiful, 
fragrant flower in the garden of God. Withholding en¬ 
riches not; giving does not impoverish. The more a per¬ 
son succeeds in using and disbursing, the richer he finds 
himself. It is the law. Good-bye is an abbreviation for 
“God be with you”; kiss your money good-bye as you give, 
consciously and intelligently, and it will the more speedily 
operate with the law of use and increase. The plank in 
certain people’s policies, “I do not practice economy,” 
is entirely consistent with their belief that God is the 
Source of their infinite supply. Economize—according 
to your faith—and observe thrift, but never stinginess. 
For needful things and a good cause, spend and be spent 
like a king. 

Regard not yourself as a terminal for the blessings of 
God, but rather as a channel through which He can 
operate to bless the many. Scatter smiles and sunshine 
and optimism; be a radiating center of cheer and help¬ 
fulness, and thus erect an enduring memorial of nobility 
in the hearts of men and women and little children. 
“Make the world your debtor; heaven will repay” is a 
worthy thought. Make the world your debtor and the 
Lord of Recompense your Friend by serving humanity 
everywhere, at all times, and in every possible manner. 
“God loveth a cheerful giver.” 

“For we must share, if we would keep 
That blessing from above. 

Ceasing to give, we cease to have— 

Such is the law of love.” 


CHAPTER XXI 

SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 


T TERETOFORE we have been concerned chiefly with 
the mundane and the mental, the physical and the 
metaphysical, the natural and the supernatural. Now, 
I want to specifically direct your attention to another 
realm, that of Spirit, which is as immeasurably superior 
to these as heaven is higher than earth, as God is greater 
than man, as the infinite, the omnipotent, and the eternal 
transcend the relative, the limited, and the transitory. 

Planes are not localities; they are conditions. Spheres 
are not determined geographically, but are states of con¬ 
sciousness. Where is the secret place of the Most High, 
the shadow of the Almighty, the habitation of those who 
flee for refuge from the stormy blast, but in the spiritual 
consciousness of man? 

There are no such words as time and space in the 
lexicon of Spirit. It is recorded that when Jesus joined 
the disciples in a storm at sea, “Immediately the ship 
was at the land.” Caught away by the Spirit, “Philip was 
found at Azotus,” a considerable distance from where 
he baptized the Ethiopian. 

One can dream in an instant what would ordinarily 
take hours. One can live an age in a few moments, as 
when under the influence of an anaesthetic. The chief 
observer at Greenwich says, “There is no such thing as 
time; we fake it.” Appearances exist for us only in our 
consciousness. Time is only the experience of succes¬ 
sion ; the past and future are but thought relations to the 
present. 

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day and tomorrow. Spirit is eternal. There is no future 
tense in the language of the Christ nor of the law of 
God. This explains the meaning of the Scriptures, 
“Before they call, I will answer”; “What things soever 
ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and 
ye shall have them.” 

So it is in actual substance. The reality of all things 
is now. When you get a consciousness of this fact, you 
will realize that whatever you pray or treat for exists 
now and always has existed; and you can fervently 
render thanks to God for it. The law of praise, reacting, 
will crystallize and form the object more speedily to 
material sense. It will more readily be understood now, 
also, how it is that prayer may be retroactive, as when, 
through backward treatment, a case of today was 
answered yesterday or a week ago, the person’s request 
for healing having been delayed in reaching the one who 
ministers. Spirit knows no bounds. 

As the physical eye has its counterpart on the mental 
plane, enabling the psychic to observe clairvoyantly that 
which is transpiring at a distance, so in the higher realm, 
in its prototype known as “spiritual discernment,” the 
mystic sees the invisible, intuition becomes revelation, 
and natural and mental therapeutic faculties and energies 
are swallowed up by gifts of spiritual healing. 

Every thing we see around us has its spiritual reality; 
each is a reflection in the slower vibrations of what is 
actual and permanent in the higher. “As above, so 
below.” “There is not a flower on earth but has its 
counterpart on the spiritual side.” “All visible things are 
emblems.” 

In the universe of ether there are great electro¬ 
magnetic currents as real as the circulating currents of 
blood in our own bodies. These circle around the sun, 


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the central body or heart of our solar system, and around 
the earth and the other planets and, returning to the sun, 
form a complete circuit. This “beneficent fluid, this 
ocean of life, ,> circulating in the infinitesimal electron and 
around the innumerable systems of worlds out in stellar 
space, is a symbol of the river of life that the revelator 
in his vision beheld proceeding from the throne of God, 
the fiery stream that Daniel saw issuing from the Ancient 
of Days, the water that greatly enriched the earth, of 
which the psalmist sang—“waters to swim in, a river that 
could not be passed over”—that immeasurable spiritual 
current of forces, vaster and more real than all the forms 
of material energy. This mighty river does not begin at 
death and is not confined to “heaven,” but is the very life 
current of God’s being, which is ever poured forth 
throughout the entire universe. 

There is a significant analogy between the universe of 
ether, the physical source of all matter, and the realm 
of Spirit, that universe other and higher than anything 
known to our senses; between this all-pervading ether, 
the marvelous storehouse of energy in which rest “the 
great dynamic powers that literally form the physical 
mainspring of the universe,” and the Spirit of Almighty 
God, the one great and infinite Source of all the various 
forms of life and forces of the whole creation; between 
this tremendous etheric energy resident and operative 
in every atom and cell, and the great spiritual currents 
of power that encircle us and interpenetrate our bodies, 
temples of the Living God, who is above all, through all, 
and in all. 

Man, made in the image and likeness of God, is essen¬ 
tially spiritual. The corporeal body in itself has no life, 
no intelligence, no power; it is but the form. The I, the 
living ego, the real self, that which thinks and feels, that 


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which endures beyond the portal of decay and death, is 
neither physical nor material. 

While man, like the seed, has inherent qualities and 
invisible forces operating through natural law for self- 
expression, only through a proper understanding, a true 
realization of the identity of his life with Spirit, comes 
absolute supremacy. Linked with and merged in spiritual 
consciousness, man is the power of God to translate and 
transmute divine, invisible substance into tangible, visible 
form in a larger, broader, truer sense. A “worker 
together with God,” having the “enlarged capacity,” man 
may express as much of the creative power of Spirit as 
he is capable of focusing and manifesting in conscious 
realization; he is then indeed the inlet and the outlet of 
all there is. The whole secret of his kingship lies in the 
fact that man, by this identity and oneness, is a miniature 
edition of Spirit; that man, potentially, is an epitome of 
Being (and to this Jesus gave testimony when, in con¬ 
firmation of an assertion, he quoted the sacred Hebrew 
Scriptures, “I said, ye are gods”) ; that he is the micro¬ 
cosm to the macrocosm of Spirit; that the law of the 
Spirit is also the law of man’s true being. 

The old Rosicrucian masters also, taught that only 
when the “I” comes to this consciousness is it really able 
to take its throne and enforce its will upon its subjects 
in its individual universe of thoughts, desires, feelings, 
emotions, and aspirations. This conscious oneness of the 
individual with the great I AM, the personal “I will” 
joyfully attuned to and harmonized intelligently with the 
Almighty Will, gives to man dominion over all the forces 
that be; he triumphs over earth, hell, and the grave, and 
all that they represent. Thus, vitally connected with 
Spirit, there is absolutely no limit to which man can 
draw at will upon the universal storehouse of infinite 


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resources, upon “all power in heaven and on earth”; and 
it is this spiritual consciousness that knows there is, to 
him, no sickness, no poverty, no failure. 

Whatever else the new, applied, Christian psychology 
reveals and teaches, it enables us to realize that man is 
grander, deeper, more transcendent, in his essential being, 
than he has ever dreamed to be the case. It has been 
said that the conscious recognition of the identity with 
Spirit by the intellect constitutes the perception of Truth; 
its conscious realization by the intuition constitutes 
illumination; its conscious manifestation and demonstra¬ 
tion by volition and ideation constitutes the mastery of 
being. 


CHAPTER XXII 

LIFE 


E have seen that there is one universal, all-pervad- 



* * ing substance, that there is one power, ruling in the 
pulsating electron of matter and in the blazing sun over 
our heads; likewise, there is but one life, expressed in 
infinite manifestations and operating on different planes. 
From exhaustive experiments performed by leading 
scientists, we know that life and energy vibrate in the 
very dust; we perceive that there is nothing lifeless in 
the universe; according to the ancient occult teaching, 
“Everything is aware.” 

Luther Burbank says, “All my investigations have 
led me away from the idea of a dead universe to one 
which is absolutely all life, soul, thought, or whatever 
name we choose to call it. All life on our planet is, so 
to speak, just on the outer fringe of this infinite ocean 
of force. The universe is not half dead, but all alive.” 

Binet, in Physical Life of Micro-organisms, main¬ 
tains that infusoria exhibit memory, volition, surprise, 
fear, and the germinal properties of human intelligence. 
Sir William Dawson states that an amoeba shows volition, 
appetite, and passion; and William Q. Judge tells us that 
no atom is devoid of life, consciousness, and intelligence 
of its own. This intelligence is a part of the cell life. 
We cannot imagine it absent from any atom, molecule, or 
electron in existence; it is the Cosmic Intelligence every¬ 
where present; it is Life itself.. 

Professor Bose of Calcutta, after experimenting 
with what we call dead matter—wood, tin, iron, etc,— 
also came to the conclusion that all matter is alive. He 




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applied chloroform, poison, and alcohol to these appar¬ 
ently inanimate substances, and in each and every case 
obtained exactly the same reactions as were obtained 
when a narcotic or poison was applied to animal or 
human tissue. 

The whole universe is filled with life, as “earth’s 
crammed with heaven”; and that life is the life of the 
Christ, the manifestation in every atom and cell, every 
mineral and plant, every insect and bird, every man and 
spirit being, of the one, eternal, infinite life of the Logos. 

The Bible reveals Christ in essence and substance as 
God, and states that in Him was created the universe of 
things in heaven and on earth, things seen and things 
unseen, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers, all 
were created and exist through and for Him. And He 
is before all things, and in and through Him the universe 
is one harmonious whole (Col. 1:16, 17). 

“Christ is now the life of everything that lives in 
any kind or degree. He is the Source of the lowest 
species of life, that of vegetables, as being the source 
of the motion on which vegetation depends. He is 
the fountain of life which man possesses in common 
with other animals. He is also the Source of all 
eternal life, i.e., spirit life.”—Wesley. 

Christ, representative man, the highest revelation 
and expression of Almighty God, in whose person all 
the currents of the universal life became focalized, objec¬ 
tive, and visible, in whom “all the treasures of wisdom 
and knowledge are stored,” Christ, in spirit and prin¬ 
ciple, is omnipresent and immanent. And the blood of 
Christ, which is the life and salvation of men, refers 
not to the material, physical fluid of the corporeal body 
of Jesus, which coagulated at the foot of a cross of wood, 
which, dried up in the dust of Golgotha, blew to the 


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Arabian desert, and which a wordy, traditional, dead 
churchianity ignorantly worships; but it is the symbol 
of the Lamb of God, a sacrifice from eternity, whose 
flesh and blood the disciple eats in Truth and mystic 
understanding, in realization of the Christ’s being formed 
in him, in the wondrous consciousness of his identity 
with this Redeemer of Mankind. Calvary, a symbol of 
the outpoured life of God through Christ, is in all the 
world; every dawn is a glad resurrection morn to the 
believer; Mount Olivet is perceived universally by the 
anointed eye of faith; the true Easter is a perennial 
condition of that soul in which the Sun of Righteousness 
is risen with healing in his wings. 

The greatest quest that anyone can undertake is the 
finding of the Christ, Emancipator from error and 
disease, Conqueror of death and its sting, Saviour of 
body and soul, the Priceless Pearl, the Enduring Treasure, 
besides which all else is as dross. Earth offers no 
such reward as the fellowship and riches of the indwell¬ 
ing Christ, Himself the stream of life and love, health 
and happiness, power and plenty. This is the wondrous 
secret, “the mystery which hath been hid for ages and 
generations . . . Christ in you.” The astounding 

statement, the unlimited promissory note, the instantly 
convertible legacy bequeathed to all believers, “Ye shall 
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you,” is pred¬ 
icated upon one understanding, condition, relationship— 
the magical combination pronounced by Christ Himself,— 
“I in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” 

We are to learn, a little further along, that the method 
whereby we can get into direct, conscious touch, here 
and now, with this Life-flow, to draw on and command 
the divine forces, to become attuned with the Infinite, to 
contact the universe of Spirit, to experience the birth 




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of the Christ within, to “know God,” experimentally and 
by actual demonstration, is by and through true prayer. 

“Open my eyes that I may see 
Glimpses of Truth Thou hast for me; 

Place in my hands the wonderful key 
That shall unclasp and set me free. 

Silently now I wait for Thee, 

Ready, my God, Thy will to see, 

Open my eyes, illumine me, 

Spirit divine.” 


CHAPTER XXIII 


GOD 


OD is Substance,—Ultimate Essence. God is 



Principle,—ever active, unalterable Law. God is 
Reality,—the Real is One. God is Will,—free, self-con¬ 
scious Will. God is Mind,—all the Mind there is, 
uncreated, self-existent, all-knowing. 

As Schopenhauer looked upon all things as the 
expression of an eternal Will, so also is there a system of 
philosophy which affirms that Mind is God. God is 
Mind, Will, Principle, Substance, Reality, Life, Love, 
Truth, Wisdom, the omnipresence and omnipotence of 
which can be instantly utilized at any moment for any 
good purpose; but He is much more. These are quali¬ 
ties, characteristics, and attributes which express His 
nature and personality. 

Almighty God, “Maker of heaven and earth” and of 
all the created and creative universe, of the seen and the 
unseen, the temporal and the eternal, the finite and the 
infinite, God, the unchangeable, self-existent, self-con¬ 
scious One of the entire universe, is not mere principle; 
He is Being; He is Intelligence personified; and He 
is as concerned about you as about Jesus the Christ; He 
is as interested in New York as He is in the New Jeru¬ 
salem. 

The belief in God is intuitive, and is implanted in 
the heart of both savage and sage universally. God is 
not a distant potentate, nor does He sit upon a material 
throne of gold in a geographical heaven; He is not a 
tormentor with club in hand; He is not an anthropomor- 


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phic being, yet He is a personal God; He has parts and 
faculties, yet He “filleth all in all,” as 

"one stupendous whole, 

Whose body nature is and God the soul.” 

Every bush is a “burning bush” if our eyes were only 
open to behold the mystery; all ground is “holy ground” 
to the awakened consciousness. The pillar of fire, just 
as assured and comforting as of old, goes before those 
whose spiritual perception is quickened to catch the 
vision; and there is no night so dark but that the gracious 
presence of God illumines the way. 

When I say “God,” I am thinking of Health and its 
wondrous enjoyments, of Life and all that life holds 
for me. When I utter the word “God,” I have in mind 
Power, all the power there is, everywhere, in me, power 
unlimited and boundless, power to triumph gloriously. 
When I devoutly, intelligently speak the name of God, 
this consciousness puts me en rapport with the Ineffable 
Presence, protects me in danger, comforts me in distress, 
preserves me from fear, lifts my burden, brings me 
assurance of His personal care, and supplies all my need. 
As I turn in thought to God, to Him who is my Friend, 
I am immediately transported beyond the petty annoy¬ 
ances of earth; my spirit transcends all the untoward 
conditions of materiality, no matter how insurmount¬ 
able they appear; and the consciousness of His suffi¬ 
ciency solves my every problem. In His name I con¬ 
quer, I reign supreme; in Him I have riches untold, 
against which the combined blessings of earth, without a 
realization of the constant care and keeping of God, 
would constitute me a pauper indeed. 

We are His offspring, heirs of God,—hence “All 
things are ours”; but only Spirit recognizes Spirit; 


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the finite cannot comprehend Infinity; matter cannot 
reveal the great Over-Soul. The kingdom of God, and 
all that goes with it, is within you, but it is spiritually 
discerned; no book can impart that Truth to your inner 
consciousness; Spirit quickens the understanding. 
Unless the Spirit of Truth make alive the Word, you 
get not a knowledge of the resurrection; only the Spirit 
can witness to the Christ within. Born from above by 
that selfsame Spirit, you are enabled by Him to com¬ 
mence your prayer with “Abba, Father”; the I AM now 
formed in you communes with the Great I AM; only 
by this conscious fellowship do we “know God.” 

By reason of this vital, conscious identity with God, 
infinite life, the deeper life of the Spirit seeks its high¬ 
est expression in and through you; unlimited, creative, 
spiritual power “worketh in you both to will and to do 
of His good pleasure”; wisdom direct from Universal 
Mind, the Mind of Christ, immanent, transcendent, 
omniscient—the secret and explanation of that mystic 
experience common to all the saints, known as illumi¬ 
nation—unlocks and unfolds to you the mysteries of the 
kingdom. “For it lieth in man beforehand and needeth 
only to be awakened by the Spirit of God. In one 
quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had 
been many years at a university,” testifies Jacob Boehme. 
Spiritual science discerns that man’s superconscious¬ 
ness is inspired with all ideas fundamental in Divine 
Mind. “The profounder regions of man’s inner nature,” 
to which F. W. H. Myers refers, are the regions of the 
spiritual, where the human spirit gets into conscious touch 
with the Mind and the Spirit of the Eternal Christ. 

To be in tune with the Infinite bespeaks a great 
spiritual Truth. For just as one string vibrating at a 
certain pitch makes another string vibrate when it is tuned 


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to the same pitch, so can the Mind of the Spirit make a 
human mind vibrate, and His thoughts can be transmitted 
from the universe of ether to the ether body in which the 
human spirit is enveloped. Thus the mystic discovers 
also that there are chords and tones of music set up 
in the surrounding ether by the play of spiritual forces 
totally unknown to his fellows; to the God-polarized 
artist attuned to draw from formative substance, there 
are an infinite number of ideas, poems, pictures, sonatas, 
and symphonies. We are to see presently that the key 
for tuning the mind to the proper pitch is prayer. 

We smile at the simple ignorance of the back country 
woman who, moving to a progressive little village, found 
her new home lighted by electricity and who later stood 
transfixed, filled with astonishment, when a man one day 
replaced her eight candle bulbs with those of sixty candle 
power. While it seemed nothing short of magic, yet 
the source of the new flood of illumination was there 
all the time, the same current feeding also the enor¬ 
mously increased light and power. So it is with the 
Source of infinite supply. 

To guide you in the way of a realization of your 
oneness with all there is, all Substance, all Good, Ulti¬ 
mate Reality, God, is all that any religion can do. 
“Philosophy, science, religion, are alike valueless if they 
are not each and all capable of being applied to our 
everyday experience. . . Show me any force in the 
universe, and I claim the right to experiment with that 
force. Show me any form of energy, and I demand the 
right to experiment with that energy until I have linked 
my life to it and made it my servant and my friend,” 
says an authority in both mundane and spiritual affairs. 

I in God and God in me constitutes the aim, basis, 
and essence of all spiritual understanding and partici- 


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pation. '‘The Christian doctrine of the Divine Imma¬ 
nence is the very essence of all religion.”—A. A. Hodge. 

“This thought of the immanence of the transcendent 
God is a magnificent conception that is destined 
powerfully to influence religion, theology, science, and 
common life.”—Dr. W. N. Clarke. 

“He is present not merely in the grain and the atom, 
but in the electron. God, in the infinitesimal, hiding 
His wonders there, working His miracles of power there, 
as much as in the infinite—this is the message of 
science.”—Dr. W. H. Fitchett. 

That one must die to go to God is a false concept 
of religion. God is everywhere; God is here; God is 
in me. God is Life; God is Life everywhere; God is Life 
here; God is Life in me. God is my Life,—this con¬ 
sciousness will heal the sick and diseased instantly. 

“Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit 
with Spirit can meet— 

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than 
hands and feet.” 

The time comes in the consciousness of the believer, 
as with the author of the twenty-third psalm, that 
Jehovah is his shepherd, he shall not want food, raiment, 
shelter, comfort; he shall not want for anything, now or 
ever. The personal consciousness of the abiding 
presence of God insures safety, supply, and every bless¬ 
ing; a realization of Truth operates, controls, and tri¬ 
umphs on every plane, in every conceivable situation, no 
matter what the odds; the principle applies to every 
problem or need. 

During the black plague in England, when tens of 
thousands died of it, a Quaker wrote out the words of 
that wonderful psalm, “There shall no evil befall thee, 


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neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling,’’ and 
nailed them over his door in the face of three worlds; 
and it is of record that his home alone remained 
untouched by the terrible scourge. In Cheshire it is 
today pointed out as a memorial of his faith. That 
man had a realization of the Truth, the Living Word, 
respoken to his soul by the Holy Spirit. The letters on 
his door were but the vibrations of spiritual conscious¬ 
ness which, in his innermost being, challenged death and 
hell. 

Accidents are sometimes miscalled ‘‘acts of God.” 
The teaching that it is God’s will that you be sick is 
blasphemy. Death is not the door to heaven; and the 
expression, “It pleased God to remove our brother,” is 
“damnable heresy.” There is no such thing as “bad 
weather,” “hard times,” or “dangerous places” to the 
consciousness awakened to Divine Presence, to the inter¬ 
position of Providence, to the protection and blessing 
of Him whose voice is distinctly heard above every 
turbulent element, “Lo, I am with you alway.” In the 
measure that one practices this law, the law of Spirit, 
by so much does he escape accidents and disasters, and 
bear a “charmed” life. This is the explanation of the 
phenomenon experienced by many during the late war, 
when their comrades were torn to shreds by bomb and 
shell and they remained, day after day and in engage¬ 
ment after engagement, without a scratch. 

This consciousness was a precious experience of mine 
also, when I was under fire night and day for weeks, 
when death-dealing engines of war were blowing 
houses ofif the face of the earth on three sides of me and 
it seemed that all hell was let loose. Very clearly I 
heard the still small voice of promise; and something 
within my very being cried aloud in response, “Thou 


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wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed 
on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee”; “The Lord is 
my Light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear ? the Lord 
is the Strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” 
And I tacked the sacred words over my little bed and 
defied the hail of hate to touch me. 

When Elizabeth Fry and her little company set forth 
upon the trackless ocean and essayed to cross the Atlan¬ 
tic in the name of the Lord and in the only craft they 
could secure, captained by a man who had never lost 
sight of land and who had not a chart aboard, she daily 
went into the great silence, and, getting her bearings 
from God, directed the steering of the vessel and in due 
season sailed straight into Boston Harbor. 

“Some men live near to God as my right arm 
Is near to me; and thus they walk about 
Mailed in full proof of faith, and bear a charm 
That mocks at fear and bars the door on doubt 
And dares the impossible.” 


Chapter xxiv 

PRAYER 


TJRAYER puts us into immediate touch and communi- 
cation with the Giver of all life, with the Author of 
all good, with the mightiest forces of the universe. 
Prayer unlocks the floodgates of heaven, taps the trunk 
lines of all power, transports man from sense to soul, 
from the temporal to the eternal, from the circumscribed 
to the unbounded, up through the realms of physics 
and psychics to Infinite Spirit, interprets Deity to 
human understanding, and translates the attributes of 
the Almighty into terms of practical, everyday utility. 

All realms are affected by the power of prayer, 
which dominates the laws of the physical and material 
universe by higher, spiritual laws. Says George A. 
Buttrick: ‘‘This world is not ruled by law; it is ruled 
by God through law! Laws of themselves have no being. 
They are rules of living and working which owe their 
binding might and their continuance to the mind and 
power which ordained them. I will press beyond the 
law and worship the Mind which ordained it in wisdom, 
the Power which holds it unabridged, the Heart which 
established it in constant, fruitful, and beneficent care.” 

“Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, 

Uttered or unexpressed, 

The motion of the hidden fire 
That trembles in the breast.” 

True prayer is all that, and more. “It may manifest 
itself in tears, in groans and pain, but the hidden 
emotion sets up vibrations in the ether around, and these 
are caught up by the Spirit and Mind of God; and by the 


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very intensity of the emotion, the one who prays puts 
himself in touch with the living Spirit of his heavenly 
Father.”—Hooper. 

Usually the prayer of the advanced student is 
answered immediately, but often that is only the mani¬ 
festation, the outward, visible expression, of a life spent 
in hours and days of secret intercession. Importunity 
forms no insignificant part of Christ’s teaching on this 
subject. The yearning, intense, “I-will-not-let-thee- 
go-except-thou-bless-me” action of intelligently directed, 
effectual prayer, the taking of the kingdom of heaven 
by violence, may be likened unto a mighty body of water, 
accumulating volume and force until, released by the 
sudden breaking of the dam, it rushes onward and out¬ 
ward, carrying everything with it. “Man may be and 
do the thing he wishes if he keep that one thought 
dominant through night and day, and know his strength 
is limitless because its Fountainhead is God.” Success 
in the high art of prayer comes only of persistent, impor¬ 
tunate waiting upon God, often with fasting, and never 
without a forgiving spirit. 

One of the greatest powers in the world is that of the 
agreement in prayer of two or more participants united 
in Spirit with but one aim,—the high resolve to attain 
their goal at any cost, the accomplishment of their 
interpretation of the will of God for them. This prin¬ 
ciple was specifically pointed out by Jesus Christ, with 
promise of fruitfulness. 

Spiritual, worshipful prayer is largely made up of 
praise. Prayer is twofold in its jeffect. The reflex 
action of prayer is the most stimulating agent known, 
beneficial alike to body, mind, and spirit. It is now 
known scientifically that prayer expressed in praises to 
God attunes one to harmonize with the highest forces, 


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is the greatest antidote for discord, distress, perplexity, 
and fear, and is a tremendous factor for health, comfort, 
power, and plenty. David’s soulful psalms, set to music 
and sung with spiritual understanding, are wonderfully 
helpful, refreshing, and strengthening. The stars show 
forth His handiwork; the very stones sing their indi¬ 
vidual anthems in the ear of God; nature everywhere 
resounds with a veritable hallelujah chorus; and when 
man unites with all creation in pouring out his song of 
praise, giving glory to Him who is worthy to receive 
all adoration and honor, he at once attunes his vibrations 
with universal harmony, with the best tonic, the greatest 
stimulant, the most effective elements, the highest, most 
powerful factors for his good; he mounts the ladder of 
God, ministering angels to him descending. Praise 
operates mightily the law of increase; the drawing power 
of gratitude is incalculable. “It is a good thing to give 
thanks unto the Lord and to sing praise unto Thy name, 
O Most High.” 

I know not of having witnessed a more inspiring 
sight than when I once came suddenly upon a large 
company of believers encamped in the woods of Michi¬ 
gan, rejoicing in God their Saviour, singing His praises 
with hands upraised, symbolic of victory, as Moses’ arm 
held high toward the heavens acted as a conductor for 
the universal forces precipitating the blessings and 
triumphs of Jehovah. 

Christ spoke not a little of joy, and taught his fol¬ 
lowers to be of good cheer. Here is indicated a great 
and wise law, invigorating, enriching, and making for 
greater vitality and efficiency in the entire being. That 
joy is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit; “the joy of 
the Lord is your strength.” There are three kinds of 
joy,—the unnatural joy induced by drugs, the natural 


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joy of the healthy, well fed, contented man or beast, 
and the supernatural, that joy of the Holy Spirit which 
may be coexistent with the greatest bereavements, caus¬ 
ing a soul to transcend every trial and sorrow of earth. 

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ;” To 
the man or woman who knows how to pray and praise 
and rejoice in God, there is instantly available every 
protection, every care, every blessing; and there is no such 
thing as an insurmountable difficulty, an incurable disease, 
or an insufficient supply. 

Shortly before he passed from this stage of activity, 
Doctor Lewis, meeting his pastor one day, said to him, 
“Brother, God answers prayer, and I want to tell you 
how I know it.” And then the dear old man related the 
following: “When I was seven years of age, my mother 
was a widow, and there were six of us children. We 
lived on what was then the frontier of Ohio, in a little 
house of one room. It was the fall of the year and was 
beginning to get cold. One memorable morning I 
noticed that my mother seemed to be very sad. After 
she got the breakfast ready and we were seated around 
the table, mother put on her old sunbonnet and quietly 
went out into the field. By this time I was so much 
interested I didn’t want anything to eat, so I pushed my 
chair back and followed her. She knelt down behind 
a tree and began talking as if she were addressing a 
friend. She said, ‘Lord, I come to you now as the 
Father of the fatherless and the Judge of the widow. 
There is no other to whom I can go. I have just pre¬ 
pared the last food in the house for my fatherless chil¬ 
dren. There is no meal, nor is there any meat; they 
are barefoot, and it is chill; I have nothing for their 
feet. I have nothing more to feed them.’ After she 
had poured out her story that way to the Lord and 


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returned to the house, I thought mother seemed more 
composed. My child’s curiosity was thoroughly aroused. 
I believed God was going to help her and I wondered 
how it was to be done. So I lingered about the house. 
It seemed to me the longest morning I had ever spent. 
Ten o’clock came and then eleven, but nothing happened. 
Then, at twelve o’clock a neighbor drove up in a wagon. 
After inquiring about the family, he said, ‘Sister Lewis, 
I have just been to mill. Coming back I got to thinking 
about you; and I was afraid you might need some meal, 
so I came by to leave you some.’ He brought in a sack 
of meal, which nearly filled our barrel, and then he sat 
down to have a little talk with mother. Now, if you 
want to know how close heaven is to each of us, you go 
and do something of that kind. He went away, and the 
hours wore on. Then, when the sun began to sink 
toward the west, another neighbor drove up. Said he, 
‘Mrs. Lewis, I have just been killing my winter’s meat. 
I got to thinking about you and felt you were, out of 
meat, so I came to bring you some.’ And from the 
wagon he brought in as much meat as he could carry 
and laid it down by the meal barrel. I thought, ‘Well, 
there is the meal and there is the meat; what of 
the shoes?’ About the time he was starting, the neigh¬ 
bor asked, ‘How are the children off for shoes ?’ Mother 
told him we were barefooted, and he said, ‘Well, I am 
glad I asked, because I have a fine lot of hide in tan. 
I will just take the measure of the children’s feet.’ So 
we six came in; and, measuring us, he said, ‘That is all 
right, sister; I will have the shoes ready before it gets 
very cold.’ And so he went away. ‘Well,’ thought I, 
‘there is the meal, there is the meat, and there are the 
shoes all provided; everything is here that mother told 
the Lord about this morning, and it is not quite, not 


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quite sundown.’ ” And the Doctor added, “Brother, I 
have made the journey of seventy years in the strength 
of that meal and that meat, and those shoes have shod 
the feet of my faith from childhood hours to this day, 
when I am glad to tell that God answers prayer.” 

As a lad I became earnestly desirous of knowing if 
there were any foundation in fact for belief in the many 
things I heard read and discussed from the pulpit. I 
asked divers pertinent questions of theologians, responses 
to which seemed exceedingly impractical and altogether 
unsatisfactory. However, during the past twenty-five 
years I have had many opportunities, under most adverse 
conditions, of personally proving that God hears and 
answers prayer. 

One of my early experiences made a strong impres¬ 
sion upon me and greatly affected my life. I had come 
to the crucial test; I was at the crossroads. I remember 
well with what unutterable joy I found that the inex¬ 
haustible treasures of God’s storehouse were freely 
opened to a trusting soul, through a living faith in Him 
who cannot lie and whose promise cannot be broken. 
Thenceforth things eternal and spiritual were to have 
a substance and significance to me more real and satisfy¬ 
ing than any earthly thing. I had already experienced 
a number of remarkable answers to prayer along various 
lines and had decided to devote myself to a life of faith 
for one year, to proceed daily in certain ministrations 
of charity without any visible means of support, and 
to tell no one of my needs but to rely entirely upon the 
providence of God. It was but a short while before I 
found myself penniless and alone in a large city. My 
little fund had given out and I began to get hungry. 
Like a flash it came to me, as distinctly as if it had been 
addressed to me aloud, “Ask, and it shall be given you”; 


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and I at once knelt at my bedside to pray. Then began 
an awful fight with the powers of darkness. I shall 
not forget that hour! I was assailed with fiercest temp¬ 
tations ; my mind became flooded with subtle suggestions 
of unbelief. Never had I known such powerful forces 
of doubt; they threatened to sweep from my being every 
vestige of confidence; even previous demonstrations 
seemed but coincidences. Strong “reasonable” excuses 
for quitting tormented me, but I determined to put the 
matter to a test and know, once and forever, for myself. 
Then again I heard the voice of God, as clearly as I shall 
ever hear it, and so reassuringly, “When thou prayest, 
enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father which seeth in secret; and thy Father 
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” I looked 
up and was surprised to find I had left my door slightly 
ajar. I remember that I closed it with this thought 
in mind,—that God is my Father, I am in my closet in 
secret, and the door is shut; if there is anything in 
prayer, there is everything in prayer; but if the promises 
mean nothing to us here and now, I shall be glad to 
find it out early in life! Thus I knelt, and, burying my 
face in my Bible, simply but silently prayed for food or 
money with which to purchase some. In a few minutes 
such a feeling of relief came over me, a calm assurance 
which I now know to be the “witness of the Spirit,” 
and I was just naturally led to get up and go out to a 
restaurant. As I reached for my hat, I found it turned 
upside down with sufficient money in it to buy a good 
meal! Oh, the glory of that hour! My eyes were 
opened. I had “tasted the good word of God, and the 
power of the world to come.” I had heard and read 
and believed, but now I knew that the Author of the 
promise, “Ask, and it shall be given you,” was by my 


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side in that quiet rear room on the top floor of the old 
Studebaker mansion on Prairie Avenue, Chicago, in the 
fall of 1897. I learned shortly after, that a friend had 
felt led to hunt me up. Trying my door, he had found 
me in prayer. Not wishing to disturb me, he was about 
to leave; but, feeling suddenly an uncontrollable desire 
to give me some money, he placed it in my hat, where 
he was sure I would soon discover it, and then quietly 
withdrew without my knowledge. Thereafter the Lord 
often provided for me “a table in the wilderness/’ and 
it has been a delight to trust in Him. I have since put 
many of the precious promises of the Bible to very 
practical tests in the most difficult places, and God has 
never failed me. The supply has ever been commen¬ 
surate with the need and never a minute too late. 

When traveling, I have needed money on various 
occasions, sometimes starting for the depot without a 
penny; and not once have I been confounded. Knowing 
God would supply my need in some manner, I have 
found the money on the street or had it handed to me 
by a stranger on the way; once I actually got to the 
ticket office of a remote railway station and then dis¬ 
covered in my pocket the exact amount necessary, and 
once had it given to me unsolicited on the train a moment 
before the conductor came to collect my fare. 

Then, too, just as Jesus rebuked the wild elements 
in violent storms and stilled them, so I, also, have utilized 
the mighty, universal vibratory power by the selfsame 
Spirit on different occasions, of which the following 
instance is illustrative. It was on the border of Ken¬ 
tucky; the night was dark, and rain fell in torrents. 
Clouds were low and black; thunder and lightning 
added to the indications for a long, hard rain. As I was 
getting ready to take a couple of horses to Chicago, I 


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was impressed with the thought that it would not 
please the Lord for me to get drenched walking to the 
station a mile and a half distant, and then to ride all 
night in wet clothes; and my mind was at once inspired 
with faith to believe. So I silently prayed that God 
would stop the rain until I got to the train. Just then 
the lady of the house came into the barn and said, “This 
is a terrible night; I will get you an umbrella.” “No, 
thank you,” I replied; “I shall not need one.” She 
looked at me in astonishment and urged me. Then, in 
response to her questioning, I explained so that her 
husband and son, who were getting the horses ready, 
could also hear it, “I have just asked God to stop the 
rain, so there will be no need of my taking an umbrella.” 
There was every sign of a continuance of the storm, 
but as I looked out of the barn door, I distinctly heard 
the Spirit whisper, “Faith does not observe conditions, 
but goes forward at the command of God as did the 
priests that bare the ark when they came to the Jordan.” 
Then, taking the horses, I stepped out into the night in 
the name of the Lord, and the heavy downpour stopped 
instantly; and not a drop of rain fell until the moment 
I was sheltered in the railway car! 

Moreover, I have been divinely healed a number of 
times. My first experience came as a climax to three 
days and nights of continuous suffering from aching 
teeth. Remembering the exhortation of a preacher— 
that Jesus Christ is just the same today as when on 
earth he healed the multitudes,—I kneeled and in a few 
words asked God, in the name of Christ, to relieve me 
from the pain; and it left me immediately. 

Jesus healed the sick, all that came unto him; so 
also have I been the instrument of healing, instant, 
perfect, and permanent, full many a time, in His name, 


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in many kinds of sickness and disease, organic and 
inorganic. So may you, or even a little child, thus 
render glory to God. Jesus declared that this sign 
shall follow a believer,^—he “shall lay hands on the sick, 
and they shall recover.” One of the first proofs I had 
of the truth of this statement was in the case of a young 
man in Peoria, Illinois, who, in the last stages of con¬ 
sumption, was given up by several doctors to die. He 
had not raised his head from the pillow for three days 
when I was asked to visit him. I laid my hands upon his 
head and offered a simple prayer for his restoration. He 
at once jumped out of bed and, hugging his mother 
and other members of the family, danced about the room 
perfectly healed; and the very next day he appeared in 
public. 

To illustrate the very direct and unmistakable lead¬ 
ing of the Spirit, I will narrate an experience I had in 
India in 1902. While a friend and I were proceeding 
from the famine district with a carload of orphans, in 
changing trains at midnight we discovered that two of 
the most promising of them had been accidentally left 
behind; and I silently prayed for their recovery and for 
personal guidance. We had gone on some distance 
when I was clearly led to return; but by the time I 
reached the station some hours had elapsed and, 
although coolies searched in all that neighborhood, no 
trace of the children could be found. With heavy heart 
I had taken my seat in the train to join my friend and 
the conductor had given the signal to start, when sud¬ 
denly the Spirit of God impressed me to leave that train 
and to take another that was also just starting, but in an 
opposite direction! After going seven miles on this 
train, I got out and ran with all my might a quarter of 
a mile up the road, and there sat the little ones, who 


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had covered most of the distance on a freight train 
and then had wandered off into a near-by village to beg 
food. 

Prayer is a life,—to be lived not alone by monk or 
recluse in cloister or jungle, but by normal human 
beings, at home or at the work-bench or wherever 
engaged. Prayer is not only to be practiced in a mosque 
five times a day or made a specialty in church on Wed¬ 
nesday nights, nor is it to be exercised for youi by a 
priest or a prayerwheel; but men should pray every¬ 
where, with clean hands and benevolent spirit, without 
ceasing, multiplying thanks rather than words, and in 
secret, with the door shut to all but God. Entering 
one’s interior closet at will and totally abstracting one’s 
consciousness from all externals, even at noontide and 
in the crowded bazaar, one can communicate instantly 
with the Father, Source of all there is, and demon¬ 
strate wisdom, power, and the supply of one’s every 
need. 

“All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, 
believing, ye shall receive.” “Nothing is impossible to 
him that believeth.” 


CHAPTER XXV 

AFFIRMATION 


OUR attention has been called to the force of sug- 



-*• gestion, to the power of the spoken word, to the 
effective employment of affirmations. Now, if this be 
true of the ordinary and natural sphere, what signifi¬ 
cance must attach to the extraordinary and the super¬ 
natural ; if efficacious on the material and physical planes, 
what must it be in realms metaphysical and divine; if 
potential in the seen and temporal, what conception 
can we form of the application of these laws in the 
eternal and spiritual! If the human voice, the oral 
word, is weighty and far-reaching, we perceive that 
the eternal Logos, the Word of God,—made Life in and 
through you and me by Spirit vibration—is limitless in 
its operation. Then can we say intelligently and with 
wondrous confidence, making it personal, “Thy Word 
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path; Thy 
Truth is my shield and buckler.” First get this con¬ 
sciousness, then blaze away with your affirmations and 
reiterations of Truth by the power of Spirit in the name 
of Christ, and you will discover that there are not 
enough devils in or out of hell to successfully oppose 


you. 


Personally, I employ the three following affirma¬ 
tions and their variations most often: “God is my 
Life,” “God is my Sufficiency,” “God is my All in all.” 
The first I spontaneously reiterate upon the slightest 
suggestion of physical danger or trouble; the second I con¬ 
sciously apply to details of my everyday affairs, no 
matter how trivial; and the third, as naturally as 


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breathing, in sudden need of any kind, I affirm repeatedly 
and fervently, realizing and knowing the truth of it. 
Amid pressing and multitudinous duties and services, 
walking on the streets or riding in the cars, by day and 
by night, I gratefully acknowledge that God is my Life, 
my Health, my Strength; since God is my Life—and 
He is—no disease can fasten onto me, no sickness can 
come nigh His dwelling; I am the temple of the Living 
God. God is my Sufficiency, my All in all, my Bound¬ 
less Supply; therefore no ill can befall me, I cannot 
fail, I can experience no loss. Spirit is my Matchless 
Riches; I can know no poverty. Infinite Love watches 
over me; hence I can want for nothing. Since in Him 
I live and move and have my being, I have all I need, 
all I can use, here and now. 

Jesus Christ made this matter very clear. Speak¬ 
ing of one who affirms, He taught, “If he shall believe 
that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he 
shall have whatsoever he saith.” And when He rebuked 
an unproductive fig tree which straightway died, Jesus 
admonished His marveling disciples that by affirmation 
they might not only do the same but more wonderful 
things, far greater works, if they had faith and doubted 
not; “and,” said He, “nothing shall be impossible unto 
you.” It is written in Job 22:28, “Thou shalt also decree 
a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.” The 
Bible further instructs, “Let the weak say I am strong.” 
Nor is it a polite way of lying for the spiritually-minded 
to affirm those things we know to be facts of the inner 
man, even if they are not yet apparent to the senses. 
“Judge not according to the appearance.” 

Looking to the imperishable things of Spirit, “seeing 
Him who is invisible,” you know that all things are 
yours, as the greater includes the lesser. If you seek, 


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obtain, and enjoy the blessings of the spiritual realm, 
those of the material and physical will automatically 
be provided. There will be no need of practicing any 
law of suggestion on the mental plane if you learn to 
make affirmations in the name of Christ. The power 
of the Highest, demonstrated in your life through 
prayer and a knowledge of the Truth, will be more than 
commensurate with all the exercises and formulae of 
metaphysics. “I and my Father are one” is the 
summum bonutn of all spiritual Truth; and when you 
obtain this individual witness in your own heart and 
mind, you will have this consciousness,—“All that the 
Father hath is mine”; and the Scripture, “The earth 
is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof,” will have a new 
significance for you. The race of life is not to the 
swift, but to the one who knows; the battle is not to the 
strong, but is won by him whose weapons are spiritual, 
not carnal. 

The Bible is full of the most wonderful, scientific, 
philosophical, spiritual statements, promises, invo¬ 
cations, and affirmations of incalculable worth and incom¬ 
parable help. There are no grander, richer, more power¬ 
ful, redundant, pulsating Truths conceived or expressed. 
Take the good Book, spread it out before you, and, 
alone, on your knees in quiet meditation, seek the Spirit 
of the Deathless Word, until it surges through every 
atom of your being and until it consciously thrills your 
body, soul, and spirit and reveals to you the Living God, 

“More dear, more intimately nigh 
Than e’en the sweetest earthly tie.” 


CHAPTER XXVI 


THE SUPREME SECRET 


E come now to the summit of all human attainment. 



▼ ▼ The most important principle, the capsheaf, the 
keystone of all the foregoing, is the harmonizing of the 
personal will with the will of the Highest, the All-good, 
All-wise, All-loving Creator, Father, Sovereign of the 
universe, Cause and 'Source of all that is. To merge 
the human will into the divine in total acknowledgment 
and in utter abandonment, to pray ceaselessly, earnestly, 
intelligently, and with conscious desire, “Thy will, O 
God, not mine, be done,” is the quintessence of all 
secrets. To think, say, and act the crowning prayer 
of the Christ Mind becomes thus the sweetest and 
noblest expression of one’s life and is a guarantee of 
supreme success. 

“Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, 
He will give it you,” was spoken to men who had left 
all to follow the Master; and just as truly as this won¬ 
drous, all-inclusive promise was fulfiled in the lives and 
ministry of the disciples of Christ, so also may it be ap¬ 
propriated and literally experienced, in fullest measure, 
here and now, by every one who consecrates his entire 
being to God. 

A warning, however, should be sounded in clarion 
tones against thus yielding one’s physical or mental 
organism to any but Plim. Everywhere about us at all 
times there are spirits of unknown quantity and ques¬ 
tionable quality, ever seeking to manifest and express 
their desires through the flesh; and it is decidedly 
dangerous to tamper with or to invite them into your 


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life under any pretext whatsoever. The citadel of the 
mind is impregnable to any evil force or entity until 
voluntarily surrendered. Guard well your time and 
attention; give them not to the forbidden practice of 
sorcery or necromancy in any form or under any guise; 
lend not your will or faculties to their arts, whatever 
their name. In these momentous days of great mental 
and spiritual activity, both good and bad, perilous times 
of tremendous influences and of many and diverse “voices 
in the air,” one is in peace and safety only when yielded, 
filled, and controlled by the Spirit of God. With all to 
gain and nothing to risk, you may fervently and confi¬ 
dently invoke in your life and interests the action of the 
Holy iSpirit, in perfect trust, without a medium, day or 
night, in every place, and under any circumstance. 

When making a demonstration, exercise a con¬ 
scious reliance upon and sincere desire for the will of 
God alone to be wrought in a given matter, realizing 
that in infinite love and wisdom “the Most High ruleth 
in the kingdom of men” and that nothing but good can 
come to a consecrated, trusting soul. Apply this prin¬ 
ciple to every situation and problem. You wish to 
catch a certain train, but only if it is God’s will, no 
matter how important and necessary it may appear, for, 
“accidentally” missing it, you might avoid a wreck that 
occurs on the trip. It may seem highly desirable and 
advantageous to hold your present position; but, exer¬ 
cising faith in the Lord for direction, you might “lose” 
it and find a better one awaiting you, one that has 
greater promise for the future. A prospective buyer 
makes you a splendid offer for your house and lot, and, 
visioning consequent investments, you decide to take 
it “if the Lord wills.” But the deal “unaccountably” 
falls through, and, in addition, the next day the home 


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burns down! Such an apparent calamity might be 
overruled to prove “all things work together for good 
to them that love God” by your discovering in the very 
spot previously covered by the building, a rich gold 
deposit or oil that develops into a gusher! The things 
which to material sense look darkest and are most dis¬ 
heartening are often blessings in disguise; and the smil¬ 
ing face of God sometimes seems to be hidden by a 
“frowning Providence.” 

No one can tell you how the Spirit may operate, 
how God may reveal His will to you in a specific case; 
but when He undertakes to direct, you will know it 
very definitely, you will not mistake the voice of God. 
One does not need a lantern to see the sun rise; Truth 
is self-revealing, self-illuminating. “God is His own 
interpreter.” Some of the most remarkable and sig¬ 
nificant matters of my life have been perfectly deter¬ 
mined in a crisis, when it was imperative that I know 
the will of God instantly, unquestionably, and for all 
time. 

With the wondrous consciousness and clearest 
understanding that the God of Love and Bounty is your 
Father, and that “it is your Father's good pleasure to 
give you the kingdom,” it will henceforth be your high¬ 
est endeavor, your greatest joy, your rare and most 
sacred privilege to know the will of God and to do it. 

* * * 5|J 

O LIVING GOD, Thou who art above all, Thou who 
art greater and mightier than all, Thou who seest, 
hearest, and knowest all, I thank Thee for the realization, 
the constant assurance, the immeasurable comfort of 
Thy presence. I thank Thee for everything; all that 
I have, all that I enjoy, comes from Thy bountiful hand. 


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Thou, omnipotent God, art my Strength, my Health, 
my very Life; Thou art my Sufficiency in all things; 
Thou art my Rich Supply; in Thee, in Abundance, I 
live and move and have my being. 

In perplexity Thou art my ready Counselor; and in 
the hour of temptation Thou, my Defender and my 
Deliverer, art quick to succor me. When the waters of 
trouble or of sorrow rise, when the floods would over¬ 
whelm me, lo! Thou art by my side. No storm can 
hide Thy countenance from me; adverse winds cannot 
move me; and in a tempest more violent than Eurocly- 
don, Thou wilt hold me fast. 

In distress he finds support and repose who leans 
upon Thy strong arm, O Lord. Fiery trials that pierce 
to the soul can but reveal Thy boundless grace, Thy 
power triumphant in the believer; though on every 
hand he be assailed by foes, visible and invisible, Thou 
coverest his head in battle; Thy chariots, ten thousand 
times ten thousand, are at the behest of those who trust 
in Thee and who rely confidently and unreservedly upon 
the higher spiritual forces. 

Hidden with Christ in the secret place of the Most 
High, nothing can touch me, except by permission or 
commission from Thee. That only can come into my 
life which is Thy loving will, since I am overshadowed by 
Infinite Wisdom. Thou enablest me to rejoice alway, 
for I see Thee everywhere and in everything, no matter 
what the situation or the odds. With descending night, 
Thou art my Light round about; darkness and light 
are both alike to Thee. Thou watchest over me all the 
day long and Thou guardest me in sleep; when I awake 
I am still with Thee. 

I love Thee; I love Thy way and will for me. With 
joy I embrace that which seems a cross; the bitter and 


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the sweet are alike made savory by Thy blessing. Thou 
dost not take away what is good except to replace it 
with the better, the best. Thou dost sanctify and bless 
the yielded and consecrated, the useful and clean; and 
Thou dost pull down, root out, and destroy the 
unworthy, the insecure, the false. Thou dost plant and 
build the lovely, the noble, the true; yea, Thou dost 
build upon a firm foundation and for eternity. 

Heavenly Father, Giver of all good, I am Thine, 
all I am, all that I hope to be; I am Thine to serve, 
gladly, freely. These hands shall share and pass on 
what Thou so richly pourest out to me, blessing others 
in Thy name. These feet, feet that Thou graciously 
turnest into the right way, feet that are swift to run for 
Thee, shall ever take me on errands of love and tender¬ 
ness for those in need. My time, my strength, my sub¬ 
stance, are wholly and forever Thine, to use as pleaseth 
Thee. O God, my Friend, changeless and unfailing, 
take my life and express Thyself in and through it in 
any manner that may glorify Thee, anywhere in Thy 
big, beautiful world. 

Now, let the words of my mouth and the meditation 
of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, dear Lord; and, 
lest at any time I become unmindful, may Thy Holy 
Spirit keep fresh within my consciousness the inspiring 
Truth that all things are possible with Thee, O God. 










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